"I witnessed a car accident"

Driving on the roads so far, I've never seen the real happenings of a car accident. Every time I just saw the "end results". Of course I've never asked to see one with my own eyes. But I think it's quite lucky for me to not see any of it till this far.

But it happened. On the night I was driving my parents and my brother from a close town back to my home at midnight, two cars collided just about 100 meters in front of us. The cars slammed to each other inside a hill tunnel by the time I drove into the tunnel entrance. The tremendous tire-screeching and metal-cracking sound frightened everyone in the car.

As I drove close to the scene, we saw the 1st car was full with a family. And all the family members (at least 4 were children) seem to be alright as they all ran out from the smacked car immediately. The father was holding one of his daughter who was in trauma (judged by the expression on her face) and it felt as if he would forever not let go of her daughter no matter what's happening to her.

We passed by the 1st car very slowly but I didn't stop to help (for a few reasons...). Then when I drove near to the car at the front, I was shocked to find out that it was the car that just passed through me a few seconds before the accident (outside the tunnel) in a reckless manner. The people inside were all alright as well. One thing that irritated me was when I saw the driver he was checking the damage on his car with a calm look (I believe he was pretending in front of us) and it was as if he's pitying how much money he needed to pay for the repair.

After seeing both groups of people were still in pretty good shapes, we exited the tunnel and saw the security staffs working in the tunnel. And they're hustling to the scene not far away. I wound my car window down and yelled to them about the car accident and they responded they're already on their way. Feeling relieved to see everything is turning out well from the worst, we continued our journey.

It was lucky for me that I didn't get involved at all. But I got something out from the accident too. It was anger. And it's an amazing experience to have seen everything in the accident from a great father to a young troublemaker and finally the agile rescue team on duty. Normally it took around 30 seconds to pass the tunnel through. But this incident had slowed down everything in both physics and mentality. It had clued me some little thing of what I'm always wondering: is our world conflicting in many aspects like this as the new generation tries to overpower the old generation with all modern weapons (computers, electronics, engines, mentalities, etc.)?