My prayers are with you Marjorie (Thanks Dansk and I hope you are well, too).
Car accidents can be so traumatic, and painful as well!
My sister just called me from Arkansas and said my nephew was coming home from work at midnight (swing shift) on the I-15 near Phelan, Calif. and was in his Jeep with big tires, riding next to the concrete barriers. This highway is busy at midnight the area is growing so fast! A car came up behind him really fast and either hit him or he got spooked, and his Jeep ran UP the concrete embankment, rolled over several times and ended up in the oncoming traffic lane. All he remembers was the ambulance and the hospital. He can't move his left arm or side, hopefully it is a temporary pinched nerve. He has three kids and HE is the one who cooks and cleans (I won't get into his wife's problems) so she is going to have to face more than one crisis.
Thirty minutes after the phone call, one of my roommates, Robert Sullivan (former Bethelite and former Bethel roommate) comes home and he totalled HIS car. So far he is okay, but he had a woman passenger who was slightly hurt.
About 7 years ago two young guys in Los Angeles, the driver was 17 and drunk, roared down the street RIGHT INTO AN INTERSECTION WITH A RED LIGHT ON HIS SIDE, and just happened to pass in front of my car at high speed, and I clipped his rear end with about 1/3 second notice, not even enough to put on my brakes! His new Firebird spun around, hit a tree and a pole, caught on fire. There just happened to be a cop who just started chasing him a half a block earlier, and a taxi driver witnessed it. There was 3 ambulances and a firetruck almost immediately. The accident report said that the kid was drunk as was his young friend, and the cop estimated his speed at 80-90 mph! Needless to say I got a nice settlement eventually, but within 2 days my neck got stiff. To this day I get pinched nerves from that, not worth any settlement. I thought I was okay until I went to the doctors.
The scary part was that for a year, every time I went through an intersection I was paranoid, looking around to see if any car was flying at me at 80+ mph. Not fun to go through. I am still traumatized by it, since if I was going any faster or he was going slower, he would have hit me square in the driver's door and instantly killed me. As it was the airbags saved me also, but my car was totaled.
Marjorie, my thoughts are with you!
Randy
