Roach Blamed for Auto Accident

The unloved cockroach doesn’t get any respect at all. And this time, it earns  further notoriety for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

A three-car collision that sent two people to hospital was blamed on a cockroach! 

The New Zealand Herald reported that a woman told police she became distracted by a cockroach scurrying across her dashboard before she crashed into two vehicles travelling in the opposite direction after crossing the center line.

 

Her Toyota Corolla appeared to have sideswiped the first oncoming vehicle before it rebounded and met head-on into the second oncoming vehicle.

 

Western Bay of Plenty head of road policing Senior Sergeant Ian Campion said two occupants from the second vehicle were taken to Tauranga Hospital, Tauranga, North Island. Thankfully, they survived because the  injuries suffered were minor to moderate

 

Shouldn’t the driver be blamed – why pick on the cockroach? I am quite distressed about this!

 

On Wednesday, I was speaking to a group of twenty-five Fourth Formers at SMK Subang Utama in Subang Jaya on the importance of public speaking – drawing from my own experience as a six-year old Toastmaster.

Thanks to English teacher Jacob Mathew (second pic below, on the left) for arranging this.