Sunday 1 November 2009

Shame - 3

Chapter 3
Many cars stopped in the middle of the Desert Road that linked Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt because of a big accident. There were some policemen at the scene and paramedics were racing time trying to save the lives of some people involved in a big car crash. The number of cars that had to stop was increasing by the minute in both directions and the road came to a stand still.

Two cars at the centre of the accident were totally smashed. The two cars involved were a taxi that had four people inside and the other was the late model car that Haj Ali drove. More people gathered and some of them were trying to get the injured out of the cars and help paramedics and police. The accident was horrific and it did not take long for the paramedics to pronounce Haj Ali and the four other people in a car from the opposite direction dead.

The police got some ID cards from the people involved in the accident. They also got the registration numbers of the two cars to start contacting their families. The bodies of the casualties were carried away from the middle of the road. The police wanted to reopen it for traffic as soon as they could. People who saw the accident said that the old man must have slept while driving before his car went to the wrong side of the road hitting the taxi head on.

Haj Ali could not keep his word this time when he said he was coming for dinner with all his children at the family home.