Hit by a train?!!

On the 22nd of October, Faridah Hashim and her two boys were involved in an accident. Her husband set out to Malaysia on the same day and left her to accompany the kids to their concert in KAS in the evening. On their way there, she was busy talking to the kids as they were excited to be involved in the school parade on that fateful night.

She told us that she kind of heard a wisel/horn of some kind but didn't take any notice of it. Until she felt that the van was pushed from behind. She actually thought that another car or van had smashed into her van. The impact of the crash left the door unable to be opened and she had to crawl out from the front door. Only then, she realised that they were actually on a railtrack and they were just hit by a train?!! What do you think? Incredible, isn't it? To be hit by a train and not even aware of the fact...hehehe...

The driver was unaware that he stopped the van right smack on a section of the railroad and didn't realised that a train was coming towards them. I think the train driver saw them from afar and applied his brake from far away because if not, they would certainly die...sigh. Alhamdulillah, nothing worse happened. Actually they stopped there because of the traffic jam but maybe it was fate, the van driver didn't realised it was a rail track.I know that they were very lucky to be unharmed but when I heard her story the first time, I just couldn't stop giggling... hehehe.

I told Kak Jas and Kak Maria about the incident a few days later and we went to visit Faridah on the 25th of October. She was understandably still a bit shaken but I managed to lighten up the atmosphere by lightly teasing her...hehehe. I mean, being hit by a train, ok?!! Not many people could say they have the same experience?!! Only in Sudan...

The best part was the fact that the investigators kept on asking her whether she was alert when she was in the van. Tell me, seriously, if I were to get on the van, I wouldn't be alert of my surrounding. It's not as if I'm driving the van, ok?!! Can you imagine yourself, get on the van and started looking to your left, right, infront and maybe behind you... at all times. Simply crazy! I guess the incident happened for a reason. One of them was to show clearly that some of the drivers provided by the management was clearly not to be trusted and not an expert in the roads of Khartoum to say the least! 

After the incident, Faridah insisted on going to KAS for the programme. Afterwards, she was kept waiting because the driver which was supposed to pick her up was nowhere to be seen. After asking the helpdesk, it was found out that the driver went to KICS and kept saying, 'madame ma fi'... of course ler madame ma fi (not there) because he went to the wrong school...sigh... sabar je la...

The driver who finally picked her up (maybe aware that they were traumatised) picked that night to drive slowly...so slow that they became the last van to arrive at the complex! Hehehe, kesian kat Faridah but see why I found it very hilarious to say the least. It was definitely not her night...hehehe. Mujur la she's okay.

Fadidah telling us of her ordeal...

Kak Maria...

Hj. Rozlan...

Faridah and her two heroes...