On Saturday the 31st of November 2015 at around 1 pm, Shawronna Sengupta, a student from UWCSEA was involved in a serious cycling accident while on her Grade 8 Chiang Mai camping trip. The class 8ReM , Shawronna’s class, were considered lucky to be the first class to go on the Grade 8 Chiang Mai camp of the academic year but for the testing of the equipment for reports to their friends back in school in Singapore.
During their curriculum week cycling activity, the brakes on one of the bicycles were malfunctioning, causing a disability to slow down to turn. This resulted in Shawronna Sengupta cycling off the edge of a small cliff, much to the shock of her friends behind her. Luckily, the slope wasn’t very steep and Shawronna did not fall into the water at the bottom, however, the bicycle rolled over her, compressing five of the vertebrae on her spine. The ambulance was called and unlucky Shawronna was declared unable to continue with the camp. She was flown back to Singapore after being in the Chiang Mai hospital for a few days. Her classmates were told later on that she wouldn’t be in school until a week after their camp finished and they had arrived back in Singapore. She would also be wearing a back brace for 3-6 months, rendering her unable to do sports, however, it was announced that there would be no permanent damage to her spine.
“It wasn’t only scary for her,” says one of Shawronna’s friends, “it was a traumatic experience for everyone else in the class as well, especially the people who were cycling behind her. This rang true as the people behind her witnessed her cycling off the cliff at top speed. Shawronna fell off, screamed once, shouted that she was not dead, then started talking about how much her back hurt, not knowing how much damage was caused at that point. Everyone spent the rest of the day shaken and careful. Shawronna had sustained multiple other serious injuries over the course of her 13 years. Her bad luck just kept continuing.
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