Bad Things

On my way to park my bike at my favorite tree this afternoon I heard a huge THUD!What the heck was that? Then some screaming. Oh my gosh, what!?I look to my left, to the busy street in front of my apt. block and see a young girl lying on the road.
I can see blood oozing from her head from where I'm standing. I threw my bike and groceries down and go over. What the hell am I going to do but I just went yelling at everyone on the way to call 119, fumbling for how to say those numbers in Korean which would normally come to me quite quickly.

The lady bus driver is over the young girl crying and crying. My brain went back to all of those boring weekends spent in CPR courses and first aid re-certs.1. 119 - Thank goodness everyone in Korea has a cell phone as when I hopped on the bus to tell people to call, everyone was on their phone already. good!2. Scene survey. Cars were actually trying to drive around the poor girl and me and the bus driver who were beside her.
Hmmmm do you think you could take a different F-ing route right now!!3. ABC's. She was moaning so she was breathing so that was good. Her front teeth had been knocked out and the frontal lobe of her head was gashed open and blood everywhere. I just tried to keep her from moving and in the "recovery position" in case she was going to vomit. I was trying not to vomit myself!She never did, and neither did I.
She tried to move around and was moaning but this other Korean woman told her to keep still.

FINALLY the ambulance arrives. It seemed like forever. By the time they arrived, her eyes had swollen shut.This poor girl.
Imagine, you are just crossing the street, doing whatever, going wherever and bam! Everything in your world changes. Think of this poor bus driver. Will she quit? get therapy? It was so aweful and I felt so terrible for these people involved.
We piss and moan about such trivial things so often, imagine you are hit by a damn bus!

I heard once last year, that something like 49% of all childrens deaths in Korea were due to pedestrian accidents.
So this was the excitement of my afternoon and definitely one of the worst things I've ever seen and felt. My insides are still shaking and I can't get it out of my mind.

Maybe I'll do some sort of safety lesson at school.