Tale of two cities

Colombo 10th Jan:
Recently all of us at Zimmer (India) went for our annual Sales meeting to Colombo (Incidentally since me and my spouse work for the same company, our colleagues pulled legs saying it was unfair that we were together at Colombo while they couldn’t be with their spouses). On one of the evenings a bus was arranged to take us for local sight-seeing and shopping.

At one of the T junctions on the main road, our bus collided with another speeding bus coming at right angles. Last minute maneuvering by both drivers prevented a head-on sort of collision, but still the collision was severe as you can see in the pic below –



The cleaner and a person from our team got injured (thank god, no major injuries).

Within 3 minutes, there was Police Van; within 5 minutes ambulance, fire-engine, a vehicle deployed for accident cases and the local media. In no time the mob was dispersed and the injured were taken away to hospital - silently and efficiently.


New Delhi 17th Jan:-
One of our Senior Manager was driving back to home (Gurgaon) from Delhi around mid-night with his family. After they crossed Andheria-More on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon road, they were followed by a speeding Alto Car. There were unruly guys in it, smoking and yelling. They tried to come in front and block our Manager’s car and waved hands to stop him. As the Manager kept his cool and kept driving, he asked his wife to call up Police on emergency number 100, hoping to get aid from some patrolling van. Someone at phone on 100 said they would get back immediately.

On reaching Gurgaon, as there were some call-centre employees gathered closer to Bristol Circle, the Alto guys sensed danger and stopped following the Manager. The Manager finally reached home safely.

It took another cool 45 minutes for police to get back to him on phone, still only asking frivolous details.