My wife was in her regular drop-off routine that fateful Tuesday morning. She had just dropped off Hana at her kindergarten and on the way to work when suddenly a car came out of nowhere and t-boned our car. I don’t know what’s got into the her, the lady driver but somehow she didn’t slow down or stop at the stop sign and rammed straight into our car. My wife was quite shocked, naturally and she got out of the car to scold her. Moments later I got a distress phone call from Linda relating to me about the accident.
Without a second to waste, I quickly texted my boss and rushed to the scene. At first glance our car was not too badly damaged at the passenger side. But it is going to cost a few thousand ringgit of repairs nevertheless. The other woman’s car, was worse off. The front bumper and engine compartment was almost totally crushed and even the airbags are deployed. Although the damage was severe, I still asked Alice (that’s her name) whether she wanted to settle there. Obviously it’s too big of a damaged to pay so she said we’ll have to lodge a police report at the station. I took her number and drove the Alza very slowly to the Serdang district police station in Kinrara. Thankfully I could still drive the car although the left suspension is wonky as well as the steering wheel. Believe it or not, a tow-truck guy appeared out of thin air seconds after the collision. They’re like vultures I tell you.
The traffic police officers were really helpful at the station. The took down our details, the details of the accident and within half an hour our report were finished. They even took the trouble to find us a workshop to send our car. Of course they would made a cut from that but it’s a nice gesture nonetheless. The sergeant in charge said we would know the result of the investigation in two week’s time but it looks very likely not out fault and we will claim for Alice’s insurance policy for the repairs. Ben the guy from the workshop that they recommended showed up at our place an hour later and now our car is at a workshop somewhere in Serdang. It was all pretty fast and efficient. Whether they will do a good paint and repair job, that remains to be seen. At least we were spared the headache of bureaucracy. Ben handled everything for us, the insurance claim and also dealing with the authorities.
So now for the first time ever we were without our one and only car. These past two days Linda has been hitching a ride with her Uber-driving brother. Tomorrow I will have to send her to work on the bike and the kids will take the bus every day now. Hopefully Adam doesn’t call us to visit him this weekend cause that’s not going to happen. Also I really hope the car will be ready by next week, before our long-awaited Sabah trip.
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