Originally Posted by KMohanan (Post 2116271)

Dear Justwheels, It was me who happened to sleep with my pregnant wife in the front seat. I will give you a bit more information on the incident so that you can upgrade me from 'irresponsible person' to an 'idiot' :)

During my graduation and post graduation, I was very much attached to my native place, family, relatives and friends there at Kochi. I was not that much bright in studies.. but since the ministry had announced that the first rank holder of that tough course will get posting wherever he want in india !! My sleepless two years made me to win the first rank in the tough competition with a clear margin of about 4% marks !!

But, unfortunately I got posted to Hyderabad. Even though I was really disappointed, I did not leave. Another unforgettable three years of effort resulted in a transfer to Kochi, my native place.

Since my first two years of sleepless studies for first rank had already made me a true hardworker, my three years in Hyderabad was really thrilling in terms of achievements to the company(government). Due to this reason, during the previous two days of my farewell, there were so many colleagues visiting my house for saying good-bye to me. We were also so overwhelmed with joy since the last five years of effort has become fruitful and we are joining back to support my poor family with only father working and having six sisters. In between all these visitors, we managed to do the packing of all items to my maruti 800 car (which was the first ever car in our family- for generations). So, the previous day night, we could not sleep well.

On the day of travel, we started at 05.00 am in the morning. Since my wife was pregnant and travelling with me, I was very careful while driving. To rule out any possibility of sleeping while driving, myself and wife engaged in (cultural) competitions etc continuously while driving. One of them was to sing the 'janaganamana' without any mistakes in the shortest possible time. This kind of talking, competitions and washing face etc continued. We were driving slowly and we were planning to reach Bangalore from Hyderabad in more than 15 hours. Even with all these precautions, my friends, the incident occured.

That is the reason why I was warning all my friends through some of my posts that one will never realise that he is sleeping while driving. Some stretch of road will not be in his memory ... that's all.

This can happen to anybody even with any efforts to prevent sleeping. The only way to prevent such incidents is to sleep well before the journey. Take breaks 'sufficient enough' during the journey also.

The continuing visits of all my loving friends during the last days was so sweet to remember for me, but had this negative aspect.

And the last piece of info, my first son (whom wife was carrying during this incident) is studying for BTech now !!! THANK GOD FOR ALL....

Originally Posted by rajeev k (Post 2178078)

Yes true, I meant, out of the injured one was very seriously injured.
The Tipper was at fault as it was crossing the bypass road at the live signal (In Manorama quoting the police)

What I feel is these lights do not function after about 10PM till 06AM but only the Yellow would blink which is very dangerous. Instead of look and proceed it generally is proceed and look if alive. End result similar sad accidents.

Originally Posted by coolclouds (Post 2178119)

This signal light is always on as there are lot of pick up/drop cabs travel to Infopark throughout the night. I have stopped at this signal many times at 3-4am.

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom (Post 2177956)

Very often it is also equivalent to murder.

Good to know that you learnt the lesson and are now trying to pass it on to others. kudos to you!

Originally Posted by IronH4WK (Post 2176542)

that is one horrible accident. the steering column is where the driver should be!! look at the dashboard - its been ripped off! even the engine has come off its mounts and lying on the ground with other parts strewn all over the place! :Shockked:

must have been a head-on collision; maybe someone came on to the wrong side.

Originally Posted by anumod (Post 2178991)

It is not a head on collision. This guy hit the divider, that is all. I am yet to figure out how this much damge happened to the car.

Originally Posted by Latheesh (Post 2177514)

Yesterday night around 11 I was checking some travelogues on TBHP heard a loud thud and screaching noice.

Originally Posted by Mr.Bangalore (Post 2176854)

Accidents caught in CCTV live in namma Bengaluru

Originally Posted by abhipuru16 (Post 2179758)

^^^I feel the car must have been cut hastily to get the occupants out of the mess, this might not be the just-after-mishap pics. I am pretty sure.