Let me Recap. On that fateful day of Feb 8th , I was returning to Hyderabad from Vizag. I am not sure, why I have taken Khammam route leaving 4 lane expressway :) (It is still not clear to me why I made such decision). At around 12:30 PM, we crossed Khammam and heading towards Hyderabad and planning for lunch break in next 30 min. I was with my wife and 2.5 year old daughter. That road is narrow with lot of curves (just 2 lanes).
now, if i recollect exactly, There was a tractor loaded with Haystack coming in the opposite direction. As usual, the stack covered half of my lane as well thus obstructing my view. Meanwhile, a heavy truck wanted to overtake the tractor and it was almost fully into my lane. I couldn't see the truck coming till last minute. To avoid the head on collision, Instantly I turned the steering to left and then immediately to right (there was a huge tree on left side and trench . To avoid , I had to turn steering to right). Thus , I could avoid head on collision but went and hit on the middle of the truck.
After hitting the truck, we are not sure what happened. It's just matter of seconds, air bags opened and the Pajero took a complete U Turn and came to stand still (that is on opposite lane). All the door locks were opened and we just came out of the car.
My 2.5 year old daughter could understand what happened, we were out of the car, scratch free except for a minor injury on my right knee.
The real feeling of the accident started sinking into our mind only after started looking at the damaged car.
Front right tyre bursts, air bags opened, chassis taken the hit, front portion completely damaged but the beauty was front screens were not shattered in spite of a major hit not any of the door windows. Look at the reveals startling facts . except for the airbags, nothing changed in the cabin and we were completely insulated from any type of injury.
For better clarity, I have uploaded the pics to google drive and sharing the link(at the bottom).
Fortunately, local police came to our rescue and well taken care. Let me just quote one Senior CT, who visited the spot. " This area is highly accident prone and every alternate day some fatal accidents happen here and today was your turn but I never seen a situation like this. This magnitude of accident would have killed the travelers without any doubt. But you guys are standing outside the car and smiling as if nothing happened. You made best selection of the car and I would recommend this car to my friends".
It was a miraculous and escape from jaws of death. We strongly believe , It's Pajero that saved our life. I am sure, any other SUV would have saved us from death.
The most surprise and fortunate thing was, we never felt the impact not was a body roll. just sitting in a quite cabin nothing much.
I will post some other updates more on the accident and insurance claim experience.
Pride Mitsubishi provided me excellent service and in time help. Especially It's owner Mr Sudharshan reddy and CEO - Sharat. They were there, when I needed them. That cleared any doubts in mind about the service .
Meanwhile, have a look at the pics shared in google drive.
Note: As the vehicle went for total loss, I am booking another Pajero AT :). HM is nice to provide my some discount and negotiating with them.
https://drive.google.com/folderview...pUWEVYNWhhLU1IckNqMFhiRUJIdmVsNjA&usp=sharing
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