In a matter of few weeks, India's top rally driver Gaurav Gill got to experience the best and worst moment of his professional career, leaving the otherwise strong-willed person completely shaken.
Driving through treacherous terrains at lightening quick speed makes you fearless and your vision razor sharp. But one can't really prepare for something which happened with Gill last month.
Going flat out in the Jodhpur round of Indian National Rally Championship, the 37-year-old, driving at more than 160kmph, hit the apex coming out of a blind corner and before he could react, his car collided with a motorcycle, leading to the death of three including a minor who was on that trespassing vehicle.
"This kind of incident teaches you everything about life. Life can't be the same again. It has to change. It is obviously not easy to live with this when it is not your mistake," an emotional Gill opened up to PTI a little more than a month after the "massive tragedy".
"It is something you can't imagine and that is why you don't know how to deal with it."
"I saw some reports that I suffered serious injuries but I was fine in a day or two. It was a blind corner and at that speed, when the road is 12 or 15 feet wide, what can you do apart form applying brakes and slow down as much as you can. It all happened in a flash."
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