This situation arises when any two vehicles moving on the road try to race each other or in traffic language tries to overtake each other. They try to overtake each other and that also at break-neck speed, little realizing that the road is a road and not a racing track.

In Delhi where I live, an accident, and death on the road is a very common occurrence – and, there appears to be no remedy for it. In Delhi, the continuously growing traffic, the soaring population, and the multiple modes of transport both slow and fast move together, which is one basic cause of accidents.

Besides this major hazard of Delhi roads, the complete lack of discipline also contributes to this tragic occurrence of accidents on the Delhi roads.

Once, I have also been a witness of such a horrible accident that I just cannot forget even after so much time. It happened about two years back but still, even today the picture of the horror is vivid in my mind, and, so much so that at nights I wake up shouting aloud.

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The incident was so horrible that, I sometimes do wonder why I had to be there to be witness to it. That day, with the rude shock, I had even become unconscious, and, the fear has stuck to my impressionable mind.

It was evening time, and I was coming back from my tuition class when this horrid accident occurred in front of my eyes. While I was standing on the pavement getting ready to cross the road to go homewards, from one side, a grey coloured Maruti 800 was coming at an unusually fast spec and, just as it appeared in front of me, God knows from where, a truck loaded with goods came from around to corner, and just simply dashed into the little car.

Oh! Got the car went flying into splinters in front of my eyes ant all the four people sitting inside, were crushed into a fin paste. A pool of blood came flowing out of the car. All we over in a split second, and, as could be expected, the true driver jumped out of his cabin and ran away to save hi dear life, before anyone even noticed the accident.

The horrid sight made me feel giddy, and my senses fail me. I just could not understand what I should do. However collecting my wits with an effort, I went to the nearby polio station and gave them the information of the accident.

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Be the time I returned to the spot once again, a huge crow; had gathered, and people were frantically shouting for the driver of the truck.

Now, the four bodies were being removed from the car. Oh! What a sight, a ghastly sight was now – all of them, one man, two women, and a child had completely lost their human forms and had bucolic flat blobs of flesh and blood. Besides, the man and woman in the front had even crushed their skulls into pieces and neither could even be handled.

The woman at the backward; also crushed but, her skull remained intact her limbs have been amputated by the momentum of the crash. As forth child, who could be about six or seven years old, was blow to smithereens, only her head was intact.

Having brought the police and now, seeing the condition of the inmates of the car from so close, and a pool of blood flowing on the road my head reeled once again and down with a thump I fell on the pavement. After this, I do not know what happened to me or to the accident victims.

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When I woke up the next morning I found myself on my bed at home, with my parents beside me. My parents told me that, my address was found by the policemen, in my school diary and so, they had brought me home absolutely unconscious.

I was told that, I had been unconscious for a good six hours, the shock had been so intense. When I remember that day and that incident even to-day, nervousness returns, and even now, I start wondering who those poor people could be, who had lost their lives at the altar of careless driving.