Forum member seriously injured

holly thas the car you want to get to replace the other.
Lightening never hits the same 2X
 

The thought is about your car. Another like it. Sort of Joking too! ... :coffee: ...
Lightening never strike the same place twice. Ugh right! ... :cool: ...
 
hollydolly said:
TT, you know what actually brings me out in a cold sweat is the thought that I might have had a passenger, and even tho' by some miracle I survived, they might have beeen killed..

Woulda shoulda coulda...I know that... but I have never been a driver in a car crash in my life.. the only accident has been this one, caused by someone else.... and it was catastrophic in many ways.. and it really has put the fear into me of what could have happened if I'd been carrying passengers
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Eight months after I married my third husband and we were 50 Years old and he had a 30 mile commute every day on a road that had many fatal accidents. It was two lanes each direction with no barrier in the middle. They were in process of building a freeway to go around, but it had not been completed because so many people had to commute that way.

He was driving a Saturn, which has a very sleek exterior and a semi pulling a trailer that fortunately was not loaded, pulled out right in front of him from across the highway. His car literally started to go underneath the trailer and because the car had a sleek exterior it peeled like an onion, and then spit him out. Believe it or not he walked away with not one injury.

The car was totaled, and the only part of the car that was not crushed was where he was sitting. They later said that the sleek exterior of the Saturn had saved his life. Plus normally those trailers being pulled by a semi are loaded with gravel, and luckily it was empty. If you had anyone else in the car, they would have died. Later, when we went to get his possessions out of the car. It was very chilling.

It’s very lucky that you didn’t have anyone else in the car and I’m sure you will have some PTSD and nightmares from that horrible experience. Although no amount of money will compensate for what you’ve been through I hope that you get a significant amount of compensation for your injuries for both of your physical and emotional pain. It sounds like you have a long road ahead of you to recover.
 
hollydolly said:
However if you look at the car properly you will see that the windscreen completely collapsed including the frame in on me on the drivers' side and filled my mouth with glass, and tore open my right hand... ... and the drivers side window completely smashed in.. as well..

The car overturned onto it's roof from front to back.. rather than the side somersaulting that we see often in accidents...

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I was completely unaware of it, it was the witnesses who told me...

All I knew was I got hit hard..suddenly.. and everything started spinning like I was in a thick thunderstorm, and turning and turning like inside a washing machine.. that was of course the windows smashing, and the car turning over.. and it landed back on it's tyres...

Someone said I must have had the very best seatbelts ever...
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This is really scary HD. Glad you weren't hurt worse.
 

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