Thanks.
It was a long time ago but I still have some vivid memories of it, especially the amazingly strong impression of things happening in slow motion right after the impact. The car spun twice and came to rest facing the opposite direction. I had always heard about that kind of impression but didn’t realize that it was actually like that. I also remember my over-riding concern for our baby and trying to reach for her before the car had even stopped.
The first person to stop and get out of his car took a couple of steps toward us, then just stood there and started screaming. I cursed him for being such a useless wienie. Eventually a lot of people did stop to help. Someone forced a door open and I got out of the car with the baby but the others were too seriously injured to move.
I was dizzy and my head and arm were starting to hurt. It turned out I had a concussion and a broken arm. I just sat on the ground and held the baby until the ambulances and fire trucks got there. It seemed like a long time but it was really only about three minutes. The rest is a blur of flashing lights and the emergency room and all the rest.
My hubby was hit from behind the day before Christmas Eve. There is 5000.00 in damage to his Ram pickup. The other guy driving a Ram as well, had it totaled. My hubby was in so much shock that he never got the driver’s information.
My hubby slowed down for someone turning right. The other driver doing 40 miles an hour did not.
Hubby has learned what a “No-fault” state is. He wanted the barest minimum in insurance. We now eat the 5000.00. The cheap becomes expensive.
That happened to me, when the right rear wheel of the pickup I was driving parted company with the axle (welds broke). I spun around in the road, hit broadside against a small tree which bent over from the impact. I watched the windshield shatter as the roof bent sideways and hung onto the steering wheel as the pickup tilted onto its side, trying to keep from falling out the open passenger-side window. Definitely slow motion.
I just sat on the ground and held the baby until the ambulances and fire trucks got there.
My monitor got a little blurry at that point.
I was involved in a similar incident about 40 yrs. ago.
Teenager and carload of friends ran a stop light and I hit them broadside. Many deaths.
The actual impact seemed so soft, slow. My wife’s and my seatbelts saved us. We had ‘minor’ injuries.
To this day I have trouble w/ cars coming from the right at intersections.
I did a ‘ridealong’ w/ the local police one night.
We answered a code 3, running fast down a major thoroughfare.
I was almost traumatized with visions of a replay of that night 40 yrs ago.