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.
 
Beggin' everyone's pardon if I've already told you this , much of the last 3 weeks has been a bit of a blur.....

Americans are some of my favourite people as you know hence my long membership of an American owned forum.....so it was kinda apt in a way that , the second driver who ran to my aid at the crash scene, was an American name John ( I know his last name) from Washington.

he was the one who brought his first aid kit from his vehicle, seeing my hand and arm torn to shreds and bleeding profusely.. he bound it as best as he could to try and stem the bleeding.. and for that I can never thank him enough

.. and he may have saved my arm by doing that.... ( he was also one of the drivers who gave his name as a witness)....unfortunately tho'.. after quite some time had passed , maybe 2 hours, still roadside... once they'd got me out of the car onto the trauma board and into the ambulance , the paramedics, had to remove the temp bandage.. only to find in his anxiousness to stem the bleeding, my American Knight, had bandaged my silver bangles right into the open wounds.... so the firefighters were called into the ambulance to cut my bangles off.😞


Then a week after I got out of hospital I had to go to Urgent care ..and while waiting the 3 hours to see a doctor.. I struck up a conversation with a couple.. the male was a very chatty American from Wisconsin.... amusingly, his English wife barely said more than 2 words.. but again an American helped me in my journey ... 🥰💕
 
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Hello, Holly, how are you feeling today? Much better, I hope!

I've been thinking about that hijab question. What does the law say, in your country and mine, about driving while wearing garments that can reasonably be held responsible for limiting mobility or vision? What if the accused person says it was worn for religious reasons? Does that make a difference?

This could also apply to old-fashioned nuns' outfits (though I don't think nuns wear them any more) or even those fur hats worn by Orthodox Jewish men, which could slip down over their eyes. A lady driving to the Ascot races with one of those enormous, ridiculous hats doesn't count, as she isn't wearing it for religious reasons. (Unless the Ascot races are her religion?) But as soon as religion gets brought into the picture this is the kind of logical hole we fall into.
I bet this wasn't an issue when they wrote the Constitution or the British declaration of rights.
 
Teacher Terry said:
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.
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The fact that the dump trailer was empty...Was his saving grace. If loaded with tons of gravel, the frame of the trailer would have been lower, closer to the road surface, due to the compression of the trailer's spring system. Luck comes in many ways, this was one of those ways. JIMB.
 
Wow that was an amazing escape. Seems like the universe isn't quite done with you yet.

Not that it has anything to do with anything but the other person's description in your accident reminded me of years ago when my wife was rear-ended in her VW Beetle . She got hit by a souped up muscle car with a manual transmission driven by a muscle car guy that only had one arm. When she asked the cop how does a one arm guy shift and steer at the same time safely he didn't seem to have a problem with it. Small town, probably his cousin.

The weird thing was that his hood ornament was a full size closed fist that was the same as his missing one. The weirder thing was that he had a switch that when he flipped it, the middle finger on the fist would go up.

Glad you are on the mend.
 
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hollydolly said:
Up to now I have no idea where this woman lives... or even how old she is.. I couldn't tell becase she was wearing a Hijab.niqab...so everythig was covered including her eyes because she wore glasses...

similar to this but in brown

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I know she doesn't live in my town but I was on the motorway near a town with a high immigrant population
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I missed something, somewhere. The woman who hit you was dressed in full burka?
 
Sunny said:
Hello, Holly, how are you feeling today? Much better, I hope!

I've been thinking about that hijab question. What does the law say, in your country and mine, about driving while wearing garments that can reasonably be held responsible for limiting mobility or vision? What if the accused person says it was worn for religious reasons? Does that make a difference?

This could also apply to old-fashioned nuns' outfits (though I don't think nuns wear them any more) or even those fur hats worn by Orthodox Jewish men, which could slip down over their eyes. A lady driving to the Ascot races with one of those enormous, ridiculous hats doesn't count, as she isn't wearing it for religious reasons. (Unless the Ascot races are her religion?) But as soon as religion gets brought into the picture this is the kind of logical hole we fall into.
I bet this wasn't an issue when they wrote the Constitution or the British declaration of rights.
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still not gret Sunny thanks for asking still a lot of pain.....

It's not against the law for them to wear it, and if they're involved in anaccident, it has to be proved that it was their clothing that may have caused it...

This...

Should Britain ban the niqab and burka while driving?
 
Sunny said:
Hello, Holly, how are you feeling today? Much better, I hope!

I've been thinking about that hijab question. What does the law say, in your country and mine, about driving while wearing garments that can reasonably be held responsible for limiting mobility or vision? What if the accused person says it was worn for religious reasons? Does that make a difference?

This could also apply to old-fashioned nuns' outfits (though I don't think nuns wear them any more) or even those fur hats worn by Orthodox Jewish men, which could slip down over their eyes. A lady driving to the Ascot races with one of those enormous, ridiculous hats doesn't count, as she isn't wearing it for religious reasons. (Unless the Ascot races are her religion?) But as soon as religion gets brought into the picture this is the kind of logical hole we fall into.
I bet this wasn't an issue when they wrote the Constitution or the British declaration of rights.
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Even....my friend hit someone in an intersection because her flip flop got caught up in the peddle. I've never worn flip flops while driving since. I can imagine all that flowing fabric, not to mention impeded vision.
 
I hope you are feeling better Holly. I hope the pain and soreness is less and that you will soon be fully ok.
This truly was an awful awful thing to happen. X
 

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