I was in two accidents in one night.
I was coming home from college with cold. It was dark out but clear. A snowstorm hit suddenly, a complete white-out, right before I got on the highway. I pulled over debating whether to turn around or not but; it cleared up as quickly as it hit.
I decided the coast was clear and got on the ramp. I was going about 20mph under the speed limit due to the new slush. When the car in front of me slammed on the brakes, I swerved into the other lane to avoid him. My tail end spun out and I did a donut as slid into the ditch pretty hard. I cracked my forehead pretty well on the window but I was okay.
After fruitlessly trying to rock my car out of the mud a state trooper saw me. He asked if I wanted attention for the bump on my head but I refused and he then took me to the nearest town to wait for my patents to come and get me. He wanted me out of the ditch quickly, he knew I wasn't going to be the only slide off that night.
My parents arrived about an hour later. All the while it has been snowing steadily. My father insisted we go to my little two wheel drive car because he thinks he can rock it out of the mud. After a few minutes of arguing about me just wanting to go home and it wait until tomorrow, I finally let up and said if show him where the car was. I very much regret not putting up more of a fight but I was sore and tired.
On the way to my car we saw about 5-7 cars off the shoulder and ditches in only a couple mile span if highway. My mother was struggling to keep the car in one lane as the whole highway had been covered with a sheet of ice. We see my car it is just past an upside down pick up truck and a police car. Traffic is slowly trickling through the mess of accidents and emergency responders. Many are driving with their hazards on.
My mother pulls onto the left shoulder and my father goes to try to free my car. He was unable to. He gets into the passenger seat and goes to try to call the tow truck he saw a few hundred yards back.
Next thing I know my mother is calling my name. I slowly wake up and then I become fully aware of all the pain. A semi truck had slid off the road and hit the right rear of our ford fusion.
I was sitting in the back right passenger seat and was pinned down in the car. My jaw, hip and shoulder were dislocated. I had a bad concussion and had small stress fractures in a lot of my cervical and thoracic vertebrae .My father didn't have his seatbelt on and he came over the seats and hid head went out the back window. When he came over the seats he took the head rest with him and the end of it went through my cheek.
Recovery has been rough. I won't ever be 100% okay again and will live with joint pain and scars forever. I'm dealing with it as best as I can and I'm happy. That first month is hard. The next few are mentally challenging as well as physical. Please let me know if you need anything. I'm just a PM away.
tl:dr Semis and snow don't mix well. I was beat to shit. Recovery is rough but it does get better. Let me know if you need anything.
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I was in two accidents in one night. I was coming home from college with cold. It was dark out but clear. A snowstorm hit suddenly, a complete white-out, right before I got on the highway. I pulled over debating whether to turn around or not but; it cleared up as quickly as it hit.
I decided the coast was clear and got on the ramp. I was going about 20mph under the speed limit due to the new slush. When the car in front of me slammed on the brakes, I swerved into the other lane to avoid him. My tail end spun out and I did a donut as slid into the ditch pretty hard. I cracked my forehead pretty well on the window but I was okay.
After fruitlessly trying to rock my car out of the mud a state trooper saw me. He asked if I wanted attention for the bump on my head but I refused and he then took me to the nearest town to wait for my patents to come and get me. He wanted me out of the ditch quickly, he knew I wasn't going to be the only slide off that night.
My parents arrived about an hour later. All the while it has been snowing steadily. My father insisted we go to my little two wheel drive car because he thinks he can rock it out of the mud. After a few minutes of arguing about me just wanting to go home and it wait until tomorrow, I finally let up and said if show him where the car was. I very much regret not putting up more of a fight but I was sore and tired.
On the way to my car we saw about 5-7 cars off the shoulder and ditches in only a couple mile span if highway. My mother was struggling to keep the car in one lane as the whole highway had been covered with a sheet of ice. We see my car it is just past an upside down pick up truck and a police car. Traffic is slowly trickling through the mess of accidents and emergency responders. Many are driving with their hazards on.
My mother pulls onto the left shoulder and my father goes to try to free my car. He was unable to. He gets into the passenger seat and goes to try to call the tow truck he saw a few hundred yards back.
Next thing I know my mother is calling my name. I slowly wake up and then I become fully aware of all the pain. A semi truck had slid off the road and hit the right rear of our ford fusion.
I was sitting in the back right passenger seat and was pinned down in the car. My jaw, hip and shoulder were dislocated. I had a bad concussion and had small stress fractures in a lot of my cervical and thoracic vertebrae .My father didn't have his seatbelt on and he came over the seats and hid head went out the back window. When he came over the seats he took the head rest with him and the end of it went through my cheek.
Recovery has been rough. I won't ever be 100% okay again and will live with joint pain and scars forever. I'm dealing with it as best as I can and I'm happy. That first month is hard. The next few are mentally challenging as well as physical. Please let me know if you need anything. I'm just a PM away.
tl:dr Semis and snow don't mix well. I was beat to shit. Recovery is rough but it does get better. Let me know if you need anything.
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