Tragic car crash

By Sereena Sangkar Bahadur

reena93_love@yahoo.com

GEORGE TOWN: A secure guard S. Pandian, 44 was with his three family members in the car rushing to the hospital from their home at Batu Ferringhi when the car he drove, Proton Iswara collided head-on with a van drove by R.Ramasivam in Jalan Utama in the 4.20pm accident on Thursday.

            S. Pandian was in a desperate bid to get his 12-years-old paralysed daughter, who had gone into fits to the Penang Hospital, he drove against the traffic flow and unfortunately had to pay for the gamble with his life.

            Pandian’s wife, K. Shanthi, 42 is in a very serious condition at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) whereas Pandian succumbed to his injuries at Penang Hospital and sadly to say that he had died some three hours ago after the accident took place.

            Another daughter who was also in the car, P. Sasi Rekha, 19 is also being treated at the same hospital were her family members are being treated, for multiple bodily injuries meanwhile her sister, Seetha, 12  who is paralysed from the waist down, was on life support at the ICU.

            Van driver, R. Ramasivan, 33 was trapped inside the vehicle for more than 10 minutes before firemen freed him from the wrecked van due to the impact of collision, he couldn’t even manage to free him own self and now the van driver is said to be in a stable condition and is being look thru by the Penang Hospital.

            At press time, Sasi Rekha claimed that her father was driving fast and lost control of the car, she knew that her father was so concern about her youngest sister health; she had just started working as a waitress at a restaurant near her home.

            As she was in a very weak condition after her operation to remove her spleen following the accident, doctors said she was not told about her father’s death, it’s because scared that she wouldn’t be able to take the sad news and she might get a sudden breakdown, that couldn’t harm her.

            According to their neighbor, S. Thamarai, who came to visit the family, said Sasi Rekha elder sisters died from high fever several years ago.

           “Sasi Rekha and her sister are expected to move into their grandmother’s house in Teluk Bahang since there were no one to look after them in their home in Batu Ferringhi” and “doctor have advised Sasi Rekha not to sit for a long periods as her spleen was removed” , told by a relative, V. Vasantha.

            Later, when Sasi Rekha got the news that her father, S. Pandian had died and her mother, K. Shanthi is in coma, that poor girl cried uncontrollably.

            Women, Family and Community Develpoment Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil who was in the state, visited the family at the hospital.

Words of comfort: Shahrizat having a word with Sasi-Rekha at the Penang Hospital yesterday as the teenager’s relatives look on.

Sasi-Rekha 19, being warded at the hospital for multiple bodily injuries.