KM 229.1
something's wrong with me - i'm attracting accidents like the Titanic attracts icebergs.
last weekend, i had a wedding double header - Saturday and Sunday. so i was driving to the wedding on Sunday when i saw a motorcycle lying on the road, and an Indian man lying on the other side.
i wasn't exactly bedecked in my Sunday best, but i was well-dressed. and so i just had to stop and administer first aid. he wasn't in bad shape, nothing was broken and he didn't have any major life-threatening injuries. even had time to write a note to the Casualty doctor.
and today i was in Ipoh in the State Health Department for some official business (Taiping GH's having a massive international laparoscopy congress in November), so after dinner we left for home.
and at KM 229.1, Mr Shanker (my surgeon) and i saw a body lying in the middle of the highway. and so we just had to stop and see what was going on.
some guy had decided to park his lorry at that spot and cross the highway to the other side - God only knows why. he had been hit by a car, whose windscreen was smashed to bits.
from 5 metres away i could see him breathing, so at least he's alive. when the coast was clear, i pulled him to the side, and checked for pallor, pulse and major injuries.
he just had a few lacerations to his head, with no active bleeding, as well as a broken left tibia. there was possibly an internal brain injury as well, but those things need CT scans. so we waited until the ambulance came and followed him back to the hospital.
maybe i'll go see him tomorrow. he's got a broken leg, after all - i still have to take care of that.
the scary part is, KM 229.1 was where the Bukit Gantang Incident took place - the bus fell into the ravine and killed lots of people about 10 metres from where this guy's body was sprawled on the road. stuff of nightmares.