My Worst Accident

On a Thursday night at about 00.30 a.m, I went home from a play station. I asked my friend, Husni Dani, to take me to my boarding house. At that time, I wanted to take a book of Yasin because I would go to K. Kholoil grave at Martajasah subdistrict, Bangkalan. After that, I asked my friend to take me to K. Kholoil grave. When we were on the way, we got a terrible accident in front of the Glora Bangkalan stadium, exactly on Jl. Soekarno-Hatta Bangkalan. It was the most serious accident that I ever got.

This accident happened when I was in the third grade of senior high school. It began when we drove a motorcycle and wanted to turn at the U-turn road. When we crossed the road, we did not look around first before turning, and unfortunately forgot to switch on the signal light. Suddenly, there was a motorcycle speeding up fast from the north direction, and directly hit my motorcycle from behind. Because the man drove his motorcycle very fast, both motorcycles and he himself were thrown some 10 meters down on the asphalt.

In fact, besides crashing my motorcycle, the man also crashed the sidewalk and laid back on it. His head hurted and bleeded. I thought he was passed away. Yet, he was obviously still alive.

Fortunately, the bad accident did not make me injured eventhough my motorcycle and I were thrown away as far as 5 meters. I just got a little injury on my right foot. To my surprised, my friend who drove the motorcycle was not injured at all. He even directly stood up and came close to me to help stand up.

A few minutes later, the police arrived. They asked Husni dan some eyewitnesses for some xplanation about the accident. And then, they brought Husni and my motorcycle to the police station. They wanted more explanations. Since I got injured on my foot, I could not accompany Husni to go there. One of my friends took me home to my boarding house. Meanwhile, the victim who got serious injured was immediately carried to the nearest hospital.

Based on the police investigation, finally Husni and I were declared guilty. We were claimed to have disobeyed traffic rules such as riding without helmet, having no license, and not switching on the signal light when turning. In consequence, we had to pay a monetary fine. Meanwhile, the family of the family objected the penalty given by the police. They insisted that we be put into the prison.

In the next day, this case continued more complicated. Husni’s and my family tried to solve this problem by compromise. Initially the victim side did not want to change their decision. Yet after my family tried to persuade them patiently and continuously, finally they agreed on the compromise in two conditions. First, Husni’s and my family had to pay the hospital fee of the victim. Second, we had to pay the reparation fee of their motorcycle. Finally, we made an agreement with the victim family, where we had to pay IDR 6.000.000,-

I realized that this accident hurt me very much, but it was very meaningful. It taught me many things here such as how to solve the problem, how to ride safely, how to obey the traffic signs and rules, etc. With it, now I could ride safely for myself and other people.