KTN’s investigative reporter Dennis
Onsarigo was involved in a road accident on Saturday 7 October after going for
biking.
The reporter who explains how the incident happened
says he is grateful to be alive and that God is trying to tell him something.
“As I was wheeled into the operating room for a six hour operation it hit me; life is short ... When the surgeons dimmed the lights out of my life, I had died for six hours... what if I never returned? Lucky to be alive; time I figured what this accident means,” he posted on his Instagram page.
This is how he narrated the incident;
“Man down: I went riding a bike ???? on Saturday... I had done 23Kms one way when a truck left the main road on to my path wanting to overlap
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I decide let me outpace it because it will leave dust on me... Step on the peddle, look over my shoulder and the truck has now increased pace; step on the pedal again and the truck driver impatient now honks... glancing back for a third time ...The truck is literally inches of “breathing” from me... I turn my head before I can leave the bicycle path, I lose control of the beast... Push over, I land head first - thank God I had a helmet- then my shoulder, the landing force tosses me just a yard from the truck
Screams from other motorists, the screeching slamming on brakes and now lost in dust, I can hear my own breathing... I try lifting myself up, I can’t. A sharp pain on my collar bone, tells me I have fractured something.
Long story short, I survived a truck crashing me... it was a touching distance from where I lay.
Flashback:
previous night a colleague had told me not to go riding after I told them I
wasn’t sure about riding on that road... that morning, I bought a new helmet
and said a prayer... Something I rarely do when going biking.
As I was wheeled into the operating room for a six hour operation it hit me; life is short.. When the surgeons dimmed the lights out of my life, I had died for six hours... what if I never returned?
Lucky to be alive; time I figured what this accident means” He posted.
UReport wishes Dennis Onsarigo quick
recovery.
