Car crash

Hey.

I was in a bad crash last night. Long story short, an old man went through a stop sign and I hit him doing 100km/h (60 mp/h in old money). Ended up in hospital for the night, but me and my partner have both been discharged with a few bumps and bruises. The old man walked away from the crash in a similar state, but his wife had to be cut from the car, and I don't know what state she's in.

Our car is totalled, but in saying that, it did it's job. We were in a high speed crash, and we both walked away alive and unbroken. The most painful thing from the accident was being hit in the face by the airbag. It felt like I was punched in the mouth, and tasted blood for a few hours after. But the airbags, along with the seatbelts saved our lives. I suppose that's the purpose of telling you all this. Those things work, so use them!

There were a couple of funny things. After the car spun from the accident, we went backwards through a farm fence. The car ended up live from an electric fence, and we both got shocks while trying to get out of the wreckage! We had our two little dogs with us, both of whom survived just fine too. One of them also got a shock from the fence, and ran away into the farmer's paddock. One of the cops on the scene also got a shock too. The windscreen wipers were stuck going, which just seemed weird. We went back to the car today to get our stuff out, and the electrics all still go, despite the front of the car being caved in. The CD player still played, but unfortunately won't eject, so I've probably lost Fang Bang by Wednesday 13.

Hospital acute admissions on a Friday night is a strange place to be. There was an odd assortment of drunks, asthmatic children (it's winter here), and a lot of strange people doing various silly things to themselves. The old man in the cubicle next to me kept farting.

Anyway, all is reasonably well. I feel like I've been in an intense moshpit, minus the sweat and deafness. My neck and other muscles are sore, but we are alive, and just like living through a major earthquake, this is one of those once in a lifetime experiences (hopefully only once...) which you would never wish go through, but once you have, life seems to feel different. It seems to give a new perspective on things. It's not quite like feeling invincible, because we know we came perilously close to being killed. I don't really know how to describe it. I could have died, but instead I'm still here, and I'm listening to this, for no reason other than I can.

Yeah, thank goodness you're all okay. You'll get over a bit of whiplash and a smashed up car. As Mike said, you really did all dodge a bullet there.

Was that comment for Patrick or the other guy? 😂

Glad you're all doing okay Patrick. 

Most I've ever been in was someone hitting the back of us when I was a kid, fortunately at slow speed so no one was hurt. Even though it must have been over twenty years ago I still remember what happened: it was on a roundabout and my Dad was driving. He was about to pull out when a car suddenly shot out at speed from another direction, forcing him to break in a hurry, so the car behind us that was already moving up went straight into our rear end. 

adg211288 wrote: Most I've ever been in was someone hitting the back of us when I was a kid, fortunately at slow speed so no one was hurt. Even though it must have been over twenty years ago I still remember what happened: it was on a roundabout and my Dad was driving. He was about to pull out when a car suddenly shot out at speed from another direction, forcing him to break in a hurry, so the car behind us that was already moving up went straight into our rear end.  I've had a couple of near misses since I started driving, neither of which was my fault, and always on roundabouts. I bloody hate those things because no one seems to pay attention to what lane they're supposed to be in.

Glad you all got out okay!