Reuters journalist Peter Apps (C) is attended to at the scene of a car accident outside Batticaloa September 5, 2006. After months of covering Sri Lanka's growing civil war, it seemed viciously ironic to be involved in a simple road smash a short way from the front line between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). To match story WITNESS ACCIDENT REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe (SRI LANKA)