Michellatron got a car accident for her birthday!
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:04 pmI need to get this off my chest, it has been quite the day.
My birthday is today (Valentine's day). My husband decided we'd go see a movie of my choice this morning. I settled on the new Jeff Bridges movie, Crazy Heart. I love anything he plays in. We had a great time and we're leaving the movie to drive home. We start driving down the road and a woman in a Honda Civic ran a stopsign (which is a very notorious spot for this) with no room to spare. My husband stands on the brakes as the woman driving the other car just stops right in the middle of the road. Then our Jeep collided with hers. The airbags deployed. I saw it coming so I closed my eyes. I was an EMT for 5 years before I started working in the automotive world, so I popped into my EMT routine right away. I looked my husband over and he was fine, thank our good Lord. I was okay asides from feeling like I got punched in the nose. I ran down to where the other car was and checked on the driver that ran the stopsign. She was shaken but not badly injured. We were uninjured so I started first aid until a bystander came by and was able to take over keeping her head still so I could go be with my husband.
I'm a car mechanic now, and just one look at my Jeep was all I needed to say totaled. The frame is pushed back into the radiator on the passenger side, and over I would say at least 4 inches to the driver side. We only bought it a few months ago, and I fixed it up during my last month in college in our shop there. We were going to do a suspension lift on it, as well as some other suspension work to build it into an off road rig. We named the Jeep "Trailbraker" (if it was a Wrangler we would have called it Hound).
Definitely put the rain on my birthday but the best gift of all is that my husband was okay. I am also thankful that I was unscathed as well. I'm mad at the lady for running the stopsign and ultimately wrecking up the truck, but I am very glad that I was able to get her some kind of field care until the ambulance got there. She will be okay too.
Boy, talk about a birthday to remember!
My birthday is today (Valentine's day). My husband decided we'd go see a movie of my choice this morning. I settled on the new Jeff Bridges movie, Crazy Heart. I love anything he plays in. We had a great time and we're leaving the movie to drive home. We start driving down the road and a woman in a Honda Civic ran a stopsign (which is a very notorious spot for this) with no room to spare. My husband stands on the brakes as the woman driving the other car just stops right in the middle of the road. Then our Jeep collided with hers. The airbags deployed. I saw it coming so I closed my eyes. I was an EMT for 5 years before I started working in the automotive world, so I popped into my EMT routine right away. I looked my husband over and he was fine, thank our good Lord. I was okay asides from feeling like I got punched in the nose. I ran down to where the other car was and checked on the driver that ran the stopsign. She was shaken but not badly injured. We were uninjured so I started first aid until a bystander came by and was able to take over keeping her head still so I could go be with my husband.
I'm a car mechanic now, and just one look at my Jeep was all I needed to say totaled. The frame is pushed back into the radiator on the passenger side, and over I would say at least 4 inches to the driver side. We only bought it a few months ago, and I fixed it up during my last month in college in our shop there. We were going to do a suspension lift on it, as well as some other suspension work to build it into an off road rig. We named the Jeep "Trailbraker" (if it was a Wrangler we would have called it Hound).
Definitely put the rain on my birthday but the best gift of all is that my husband was okay. I am also thankful that I was unscathed as well. I'm mad at the lady for running the stopsign and ultimately wrecking up the truck, but I am very glad that I was able to get her some kind of field care until the ambulance got there. She will be okay too.
Boy, talk about a birthday to remember!
Seatbelts and airbags hurt but they certainly do save lives!