A girl died outside my hostel today.
She was walking across the road to post a letter from her grandmother's house. When she walked back to the house, a bus was stopping at the bus stop and it obscured her view of this van coming down the road. Stepped right into the path of the van and WHAM!!
SHe died instantly. Her grandmother and mother came screaming out of the house. My friend was one of the witnesses and he said the grandmother was just screaming and banging on the ground beside her granddaughter's body. He said he could see her shoes. Apparently it flew off when she was hit by the van so hard.
She was an only child too.
We drove pass the bus stop today and we saw this whole bunch of students around that bus stop. They were putting flowers there and everything to remember their friend who had gone all too soon. ( I didn't dare to take any pictures, that would have been a tad untactful) She was only 17.
Amazing, isn't it? How life can change in just a blink of an eye?
Her day probably started normally. All she wanted to do was to post that letter. Had she stepped out just a couple of minutes later, or just a couple of minutes earlier, and she would have missed the van entirely. She would have made it home safely, she would have had a lovely evening with her mother and grandmother, then go home to a warm bed and get ready for another day of school the next day.
But she didn't. And now a grandmother has lost a beloved granddaughter, a mother has lost an only daughter, her friends have lost a classmate.
She was too young too go like this.
Makes me sad to think about it.