Hi folks, thought I'd share the story of the car accident I got into yesterday, hopefully you'll take away something from this.
I was on my way home from uni to enjoy the weekend,
I pull up to turn left onto the road to take me home.
There is one person in the oncoming traffic lane (Double lane both ways.)
She had her blinker on, and was slowing down as if to turn the same direction I was going.
Since she was farther away I could easily make it before she made it, regrettably she didn't actually intend to turn as she indicated with her blinker and I got broadsided.
The experience? Unreal. There is that moment just before the collision where it seems like time slows. It was the strangest sensation, I'm watching this minivan about to spear into my passenger side and I didn't feel scared, I didn't feel any adrenaline pumping, I didn't feel anything. Its just like you are moving through water as this unstoppable force is about to collide with you. I realized I might be about to die and I just felt numb.
After I finished spinning (I did a 180 spin from the impact, landing in the lane I would be sitting in to turn onto the road I was getting off of) I sat in the car for a good minute, just looking around. You just sit there thinking, "Alright, the nightmare is over, when am I going to wake up?" but you don't, glass is all over the inside of my car, my passenger window is shattered and my main windshield is cracked heavily. The entire passenger side of my car is crushed in, if anybody had been in the passenger seat of my car they would have likely died (The passenger seat was crushed in half.)
I walked away uninjured (As did the lady in the minivan, who insisted she didn't have her blinker on, which is either a lie or she accidentally put it on and didn't notice because I very clearly saw her blinker flashing.) so thankfully nobody was hurt.
As a result, my car is totalled. The entire passenger side is destroyed. And I'll have to figure out some way to get to uni now (Ironically I was actually going to start taking the bus when winter hit since parking is murderous once the snow starts falling. And I would have saved gas money that way.)
The cop who reported to the accident said that if its just my word against hers the situation will be mostly my fault simply because of an issue of failure to yield right of way.
If I could tell one thing to anybody about driving after this experience, it would be always always always err on the side of patience and caution. Blinkers are pointless, people are stupid, and I'm just as stupid for believing that lady's signal as she was for putting it up without following it. Never assume the other people on the road are going to do what they indicate they are, if you have to wait and possibly be late for something, just take solace in the fact that you will get there in one piece and that your loved ones will never have to get that phone call hearing you just got into a serious accident.
Go and hug your loved ones,and drive safe folks. Hope you'll never have to experience what I just did.
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