The Safest Seat

The safest seat
Have you ever thought of while travelling in a bus ,train or an aircraft how safe you are while travelling in it. There may be hundreds of thoughts going on in your mind starting with whatever has to happen will happen so why think and bother about your life when nothing is in your hands and everything is in the hands of Almighty. Those with this belief can stop reading this article here itself as may find it boring and out of their interest to proceed any further.
For those who believe that some things are in your hands while the rest is controlled by God can still afford to carry on reading this as they may like it after they finish reading this.
For those who definitely are of the belief that success is 90 % hard work and 10 % fate would find it still more interesting to read it and those who totally believe in their own self would definitely like it the most. For your information I belong to the second last category so don’t keep your minds guessing in which category the author of this article falls in.
While travelling in a bus of Haryana roadways from Chandigarh to Delhi whose driver was driving very fast as he would not waste even a second in overtaking the vehicle in front of him at the first opportunity he got. His bus would swing to the left and to the right with the turn of his steering raising goose pimples on everyone’s epidermis.
I was engulfed with the thoughts; What if he banged head on with the vehicle approaching from the opposite direction? Apart from the driver the first three rows would definitely be smashed to death if the oncoming bus with a similar speed hits it with the double velocity impact. So I should shift my seat to the rear was the answer in my mind .
“No ! What if a similar bus hits from the rear while this bus is slow or standing ; the last two rows will not exist anymore,” was the second thought which prevented me from moving to the rear seat. Then where do I go? If I keep thinking like this then the middle seat is the safest.
If the bus plunges into the canal after breaking the parapet wall of the road which is meant to prevent the vehicle from falling into the river then I’ll be stuck since the door to the front or rear would be far off to reach from where I could get out while the water enters the bus. I convinced myself thinking that the chances of bus falling into the river/canal are less as the canal is following adjacent side of the road was for a limited distance only. Yes even if such an emergency occurs the window can be used to get out as it does not have any grills in it and the glass pane can be broken with my shoe heel for getting out from anywhere.
What if some other vehicle bangs the bus at right angles to it while on a crossing or a Tee junction then how the middle row will help ? This forced my mind to infer that I should not be sitting right next to the window on either sides of the bus both to the left and the right. Hence the option is left only with the two seats which are exactly in the middle of the bus from all the ends of the bus.
Out of these two seats which is the still safer one was the only query left in my mind. Since we have a right hand drive in our country hence the left seat would be comparatively safer compared to the right one as chances of collision are more towards the driver’s side.
Yes! The answer was that the safest seat would be the left middle one from all the sides where I was already sitting. It was just a coincidence that I had occupied this seat. There was one more advantage in this; it was the least disturbed seat as anyone wanting to go out would take the shortest route to get out from any side, so only the person sitting there or adjacent to me would come here and the rest would not disturb me.
Indeed a lucky and the safest seat I had occupied was the result of analysis carried out which you must note it for your future travels if you so desire.