Jujhar Khunkhun jumped into Nikki Samborsky's life and changed it forever

The Province 

Nikki Samborsky's life was thrown into disarray when a man attempted suicide by jumping in front of her SUV.

The 22-year-old Langley woman is traumatized and feels victimized after the "nightmare" experience of running over Jujhar Khunkhun on a darkened, rain-soaked street in Surrey just over three weeks ago.

She's too stressed to work, and mounting expenses from the incident, combined with indifference by insurance companies, have made matters worse.

"I don't know how to explain it, but someone looking at you in the eyes and then jumping in front of your vehicle sticks with you for the rest of your life," Samborsky told The Province yesterday.

"It's been a nightmare."

To add insult to injury, her car was looted during the confusion following the accident.

Samborsky was driving along 64th Avenue just west of 124th Street when Khunkhun, 20, leaped in front of her car on Oct. 9.

He survived and said he was distraught because his fiancée, Sukhvir Kaur Grewal, 19, fell out of the car he was driving at the same spot a day earlier. She died in hospital.

"I put my life in her hands and she let me live," Khunkhun said in hospital.

Samborsky knew nothing of the earlier, mysterious accident.

She had left her Langley home, packing a portable DVD player and iPod, to visit a friend in Delta, where they planned to watch a movie.

"It was really dark that night and it had just finished raining and the roads were slick," said Samborsky.

She noticed a car parked on the side of the four-lane highway, with its hazard lights on, and instinctively slowed down to about 55 km/h in the 60-km/h zone, she said.

"I approached right beside his vehicle and . . . he darted from in front of his vehicle and basically just leaped into my vehicle," said Samborsky. "He looked me right in the eyes before he did it."

She felt a thud.

"It was an experience that you would never want to experience," said Samborsky. "It was like a thud and a big bang.

"I skidded to a stop and I got out and just collapsed to the ground and started crying. I was in a state of shock."

Others rushed to the scene and called 911. Her mother and father also raced to the site of the accident after being called by their distraught daughter.

"It was a nightmare," said her mom, Pam Samborsky, of the accident scene.

Nikki's mom said her daughter's car was looted by a passerby during the incident.

"While Nikki was in hysteria and she had been taken to the police car to give her statement, her car was left unattended and somebody went inside and stole her wallet, her portable DVD player and her iPod," said her mom.

Neither Samborsky's ICBC theft coverage nor her householder insurance covered the loss of the stolen goods.

Yesterday, she finally received some good news, when ICBC decided to waive the $300 deductible on the $3,000 in damage to her vehicle, shortly after inquiries were made by a Province reporter.

"It's not standard policy to waive deductibles, but obviously we look at cases on an individual basis, and under these circumstances it made sense to waive the deductible," said ICBC spokesman Doug Henderson,