There was an accident outside our house this morning. A 16 year old with no drivers licence, took his mothers car and screamed down Ridge road. We live at the top of a hill, he tried to overtake a slow driver on the blind rise, saw a another car coming, swerved, missed 2 pedestrians by half a metre and hit the rockery outside our gate. His car flew through the air and smacked into the fence. The driver he tried to overtake, stopped to assist and the kid borrowed his cellphone to phone his mom.
A few minutes later his mother arrived and drove away with him. But it gets worse. Security arrive to assist, only to find the driver had left the scene of the accident within minutes. 10 minutes later a tow truck arrives. Security calls the police. They never came. 10 minutes after the tow trucks arrive-the mother comes back and says to security, she was driving the car and had the accident-except-she didn't take into account all the eye witnesses - and both my son and I saw the kid climb out of his smashed car. We informed security she was lying to protect her son.
We all think she was trying to give her son an alibi. To protect him from the police and her Insurance company.
I think both the kid and his mother should be arrested for leaving the scene and lying about what happened. He could have killed the pedestrians, the other driver or himself. He had no drivers licence and had no business being in an expensive car and driving 120km in a 60km zone, on a blind rise and then destroying our garden and then running away.
Unfortunately for the kid and his family, I took photos of the entire scene. Also unfortunately for them my brother is their Insurance company and they will find out soon enough that their claim for damages is going to have a hefty price tag. Not only is their car totalled- and you are looking at a vehicle with a price tag of half a million, according to his mother, but the damage to the garden, our electronic security and the fence will probably be in the region of 50k minimum.
And where were the police? We called. Security called. The other driver called them and so did the tow truck driver. We are still waiting for them to arrive. Its too late for them to gather evidence, the car is gone and so is the driver. Why do we even bother having a police force? They are completely useless.
This is the 6th serious accident outside our residence in 3 years. We have asked the local council to put in speed bumps on either side of the hill, mainly because of the excessive speed drivers use. They can't see anyone leaving their driveways or pedestrians walking over the hill. There are no sidewalks.
One of those accidents the driver slammed on brakes too late and the skid marks were 90 meters long. My grandmother was coming out of our driveway and he smashed right into her car. I ran to the scene and because my grandmother's car was leaking petrol, I decided to get her out, just in case, and had to crawl inside the destroyed car to get to her. I held her for over an hour until the ambulance arrived. The police never came. The speeding driver blamed my gran. I was so angry I wanted to kill him. He had no business driving that fast on the hill. He saw her car 90 meters away. He had plenty of time to slow down. My gran had broken ribs, a broken arm and other injuries. The guy had none. He didn't have insurance either. What justice is that?
Trucks, Mercedes, BMW's - expensive vehicles - have crashed through our garden, two of them through the fence and down the wall into the driveway. Its clearly sign-posted down the road that our road has a 60km speed limit - but nobody takes any notice. Its the local speedway even though there is a solid white line and they can't see over the hill. At the end of the road 1km away is the village which has a police station. Where are the police? Who knows. 2kms from the village is the hospital. Yet it takes beween 1-2 hours for an ambulance to arrive. I know because I have timed them.
The sad reality is that we have lawlessness in this country- by reckless drivers and public servants - and there isn't a thing anyone can do about it.
And the really stupid thing is- a little care goes a long way.
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