Minor accident

We had a minor accident near Novena church at 1.26pm. Apparently this ambulance without the blaring siren was going to cut into our lane when the man horned to warn him a few times of our presence. Is it our car is too small that he can’t see us? The driver still continued to cut into our lane, we were on the extreme left lane so there’s no way we can cut into another lane safely. Next minute “BANG!!” and the guy still continued driving, did he intend to do a hit and run? Hubby horned at him and then he stopped the vehicle next to the church. Yah! To receive blessings?

Driver apologized, saying he didn’t see us. Honestly, this gives him no excuse to not pay attention to the traffic while driving especially when he is bringing patients to the hospital. I’m not lashing out at him but don’t you agree that he should always remain alert. If cannot see can hear right?  He claimed he’s rushing an old man to TTSH A&E. I mean what happened if it was a serious accident? We had a scratch to the right side mirror and it was folded in, rather minor actually. He wanted to open the back to proof to us that he has a patient but we waved him off and asked him to go coz …… for what reason I dunno but two of us automatically signalled for him to go. The soft side of us? Perhaps we didn’t want to indirectly cause an old man to get heart attack inside and die with that loud bang. 

Question is - should we have just let the ambulance go? What is right procedure? Should he have horn to ask driver to stop? There wasn’t any blaring siren so or probably wasn’t a serious case, still at that time we waved for him to go first. Then he mentioned something about going to the A&E to find him. We didn’t lah!

Back in the carpark, short journey from accident place. He looked at the thing again and said .. “I think it’s just minor scratch we forget it.” Honestly I was really relieved he had the same thought coz I wanted to suggest to him to forget it (but risked not knowing what response he’ll have. He could have scolded me that re-painting it cost money I don’t work so I don’t feel heartpain etc..) I mentioned to him 我们好人做好事吧！把坏的划走。I hope he understood my point.

What would you do if you were in our situation?