What would have been a joyous occasion was marred by misfortune on Saturday when a young man scheduled to marry on Monday was badly hurt in a traffic accident in Svay Rieng’s Romeas Hek district.

Police said the man was on the way to his fiancee’s house when an oncoming car swerved to avoid a pothole, striking him head-on and breaking both his legs.

Bystanders detained the driver, and sent the man to hospital, but the couple’s big day had to be cancelled. NOKORWAT