Guardian Angels on motorcycles

India is a nation of cowards. Yes you heard it right, 'cowards'!! No matter how arrogant we Indians are and fight with one another for stupid reasons we don't have the guts to stand up when we need to stand up. Women get raped and people don't give a damn, two men get protecting their loved ones get beaten up in Mumbai by goondas and people don't give a damn, a woman hangs herself on a busy street in Kolkata and people don’t give a damn, a guy jumps off the fourth floor of a mall and people don’t give a damn. And who are these cowardly people? It is you and me.

The following is a first person true life incident.

A family is travelling by car from Chennai, Tamilnadu to Bangalore, Karnataka to attend a wedding. There are five souls that are travelling in the car. A guy, his dad, his mom, his wife and then his little baby girl. His mother is holding her granddaughter in her arms. The baby girl just completed her fourth month. The family had travelled this road several times in the past but never would have they thought this one would bring such an impact in their lives.

Everything was going according to the plan of the day. They had started from Chennai at 8am as pre planned and were almost reaching Vellore, Tamilnadu until the unthinkable happens. The car collides with a truck on the outskirts of Vellore, Tamilnadu. The car was travelling on the fast lane at nearly 100kmph. A few hundred meters ahead a long truck carrying cars was on travelling on the slow lane on the left. The driver of the truck notices a U-turn approaching and performs the tight U-turn to his right and apparently doesn’t seem to notice the car coming on the fast lane or is such a lazy ass to look into the side mirror.

In the fraction of a second all hell breaks loose. The Dad who was driving the car slams the brakes on the car and swirls to the left to avoid the truck which was now covering all the three lanes. Soon he realised that collision was inevitable. He knew if he crashed into the truck the car would be slammed underneath the truck and tried his best and slammed the car into the back wheels of the truck.

Engineering life saving marvels called the airbags inflate in milliseconds and save the dad and son in the front seats from any injuries. The car comes to a halt. The truck driver doesn’t even care a little for the havoc he has created and moves on. The father and son in the front seat suffer only minor bruises. The wife in the backseat looks at her girl in the guy’s mother’s lap. The baby was covered with patches of blood. The wife screams and takes the baby at the sight of blood and wipes the blood and notices that the baby is safe. She looks for the source of blood only to realise it was from the mother. The guy’s mother’s head had a deep cut in her forehead and she was losing blood rapidly. The wife notices that she herself had a bruise near her left eyes.

A minute has passed since the incident and by this time everyone had managed to get out of the car and the father-son duo was trying to stop vehicles for help. But none stopped. All cars they tried to stop didn’t even bother to slow down and help. Why would they not stop? Was the worth of a life less than reaching their destinations on time? Was their time more valuable than the time required saving a soul? Maybe humanity existed no more or perhaps applicable if and only if the blood of their loved ones was spilled? Cowards.

Time was running out. They were stranded about forty kilometres from Vellore, Tamilnadu. When all hope of getting any help seem to fade away it was a miracle that God performed by sending three angels to their help....Angels on motorcycles.

Three totally unrelated persons stopped to help and offered to take them to the nearest hospital, the Apollo KH Hospital which was two kilometres from their current location. The bleeding mother sat on the pillion seat and the rider requested her not to feel bad and she could hold him tight while riding and told her that he was not bothered if her blood stained his shirt. It was one of the most generous and assuring words that could lighten the heart at the time. He was intelligent enough to tell her to stay calm and keep talking to him so that he would know that she is conscious while he was riding. The other two bike riders offered to drop the guy, his wife and baby girl. The father stayed back with the car.

The three persons dropped the mother, son, his wife and baby girl and left without even expecting anything in return for the invaluable service they offered. The mother had several tests before confirming that she was perfectly okay and escaped with only a three inch cut on her forehead. All the rest had only bruises and the baby was perfectly safe thanks to the mother who held her with her life.

No lives were lost yet all they needed was someone to drop them off at the hospital and people just left them to their fate. Do you think you are safe? Never. And when something does happen then you would feel the agony of the family that you previously failed to stop and provide a helping hand. I’m still shocked how tragic event took place and the way people passing by reacted to it. But this post is to serve a greater purpose. I don’t know the three persons who helped my aunt and her family that day. But by saving her and her family I am in debt to you for you have given back to me my greatest storyteller. Thank you whoever you are and God bless you.

This date, Friday the 13^th of September will always be remembered in our memories as the day God sent to protect us three Guardian Angels....on motorcycles.