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Accident Alert!
5:34 PM February 26, 2008

GraaawhhH! On the first day that my mom *finally* said I could take the car to school everyday, I got into an accident. But of course. An accident. Blah! I scratched up the car in the dangerous U-turn in front of National Bookstore Katipunan. Grr.. It was 4pm, and it was SOOO traffic because the GS and HS kids of both Ateneo and Miriam were all heading home. Aggressive big Pajeros, Innovas and what not were turning the single U-turn lane a double U-turn lane, and some of the cement blocks lining the said turn were moved to the side. And these huge cars were cutting me and so I couldn't make a decent turn, so my car kind of got caught in the stupid cement blocks they pushed to the side of the U-turn slot (as marked down there by the pink arrow). I actually heard a sickening grating sound when I hit it. And then the cars behind me were pushing at me so I couldn't go back, and some stupid container truck decided to make use of the free space in front of me to pass so I couldn't maneuver forward, which only added to my irritation (path marked by green arrow). Sh***T! The scratches are pretty deep, and the edges of my door got a little chipped and very dented. OMG! My dad is going to kill me. And I was so irritated cause I'm usually good (well, at least not bad) at U-turns (coz that's the hardest part of my way to school, so I have been practicing that EVERY SINGLE DAY recently) so I can navigate pretty narrow turns and estimate my distance from the sidewalks pretty well (or at least way better than Bern or Bianca). And it wasn't my first time driving though bumper-to-bumper traffic either. Argh! I was so annoyed and irritated!

My only consolation is in the fact that it wasn't another car or a person that I hit. T_T

Here are some pictures of how I understood the flow of traffic.

simple. clean. neat. easy.

Can anything be more chaotic than the traffic-crazed streets of Metro Manila? @_@ How do they expect anyone to U-turn when evil cars are blocking your way forward and pushing you into corners? I wish I had an SUV. Takot lang nila ibangga yung SUV ko. >_<

come fly ~ gen

they made that U-turn so that cars from the other direction can make a U-turn too? O__O grawr.

how did your mom react to it? >___<

~ Vigile | February 26, 2008 10:47 PM