An oversea holiday is meant to be relaxing and pleasurable. Yet it doesn’t apply to this young boy and his family.

When he was 12 years old, he travelled to Hong Kong with his family. As they were in a minibus, the driver ignored the red traffic light, went ahead a junction and was crashed by a big bus. A few passengers were injured, one badly injured. This boy sat at the front so he didn’t see that bus coming from the right, he had his right arm fractured.

As the family was there only for holidays, they didn’t know what to do so they decided to travel back straightaway by air, and the boy had to suffer all the way till he got back to Malaysia.

Subsequently the boy’s right arm is ok with some physiotherapy. However, the boy is no longer able to ride in any bus or van. He used to go to school by school bus, now the family has to send him. They haven’t got much of a choice, as the boy can get so panic, worried and be in tears when asked to take any van or bus.

His auntie has later decided to sue the bus company in Hong Kong, knowing that the minibus driver who caused this accident did not receive any legal punishment (this sounds ridiculous, I thought HK is a lot more strict in executing their law). They aren’t a rich family, middle class but they had to do so as this incident has brought so much loss to the whole family, financially, psychologically, time spent and so, so much energy since the incident two years ago.

The boy has been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following major motor vehicle accident (MVA) for over 2 years now. He sometimes still has nightmares about the accident, and can’t concentrate to study. He was a smart and happy child. The family thought it was just about avoiding to take bus and van, and he will get better by himself gradually, now they slowly learn about PTSD and is searching for help, as his condition doesn’t appear to be better after 2 years.