Post # 4 - Restorative Justice

Before read : This story is true + fiction.


     I had a traffic accident last year.  One lovely day in winter before last, I had been moving with my sister and brother to attend a my another older sister's wedding. We eagerly looked forward to the wedding. But, the problem happened when we was in middle on the expressway. There were many car in the road and we were stuck in a traffic jam. Suddenly, our car was crashed by something,  some man crashed our car from behind. I felt a pain in the neck and surprised. That was a traffic accident.

 The criminal was the taxi-driver, and funnily enough, he had a passenger. I had believed that usual taxi-driver has good driving skills, but since then it was broken. The taxi-driver was old man, and he looked so tried and sleepy. The accident occurred at 11 a.m. He looked as if he didn't get enough sleep. I still felt pains and my sister felt disgusting.

 He just said that insurance would solve the problem. We was so angry with his attitude, but we hadn't enough time to fight him. So, we received simple apology and his number. Fortunately, we weren't late for the wedding. After wedding we connected with him, he said that he didn't sleep that day before night. And he listened our story, he really said sorry, thus we forgived him and he compensated for the suffering he had been caused. Maybe he felt that falling asleep at the wheel causes very bad traffic accidents.