Although the driving in India is crazy and every time I get in a vehicle it seems there are near misses I never really felt like we would get in an accident. Like most things you hear about crashes on a daily bases but you never expect anything to happen to you. h
I went on a little excursion to Delhi to do some shopping at the markets with Lucia and Kylee, another volunteer. Our driver was making a left turn and was in a turning lane, however people don't really pay attention to the rules of the road nor to any Lanes on the road so its basically just a big clump of cars all driving in the same direction (sometimes) trying to budge themselves in front. So as we made this turn a motorcyclist beside us was going straight. The motorcyclist hit the side of our car, falling from his bike, our diver hitting the brakes as fast as he could, was too late and as we all flew forward in our seats (no seat belts here either) we felt our van go over a bump. As we came to a stop, the van was silent thinking we had just killed a man. We are going to Jail! Then the man crawled out from under the front of our van and saw immediately he was wearing a helmet, THANK GOD! Us three girls still sat shell shocked in the back as the driver of both vehicles yelled at each other, blaming the other for his mistake. The biker looked alright and we didn't know if the bump we ran over was him of his bike but the only damage i saw was to his knee as he lifted it up to expose his bloody gashes. Because we are in India, no information was exchanged and the driver just drove off..
I was jumpy the rest of the day but so thankful no one got seriously injured.