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My First Car Accident
Well I got into my first car accident ever on Saturday, December 15 2007 at around 11:50pm MST. Not fun. I was coming home from a friend's house and had a green light at the intersection. Some person(s) coming the opposite way decided it would be a fantastic idea to turn left as I approached at or near 40mph. See crappy illustration below: The intersection of Kipling and Colfax I hit them really hard. Both airbags deployed. My car (which I loved) is severely damaged (wreck pics below). One payment away from being 100% mine, too! Anyway I never lost consciousness and I cussed for about 20 seconds or so before getting out of the car. Someone else was already calling the police. The maroon Jeep Grand Cherokee that was hit also had its airbags deployed, both doors open and nobody around. The driver and passengers had apparently fled... on foot! At first I thought the vehicle must have been stolen, why else would they flee on foot? But they were caught and it turns out the driver was unlicensed and a minor (14 year-old girl). The registered owner of the vehicle was a passenger (45 years old) but the police were not 100% sure they had insurance, since only an expired card was found in the vehicle. Probably not, knowing my luck. There was another passenger, a 17-year old girl. All 3 had been drinking, but the 45-year-old male was the most drunk (all of this according to the police report). It was not fun. It still is not fun. I loved my car (2003 Honda Civic EX). I used to pat that thing on the chassis telling it we were going somewhere and things like that. When I got out after the wreck and saw the massive front-end damage, I patted my car goodbye, knowing that it could probably never be driven again. As for me, I was taken to the hospital, treated and released. I am scraped up on my hands from the airbag deployment and a little bit on the nose (no burns or anything like that, since my airbags do not use sodium azide). It feels like I've been hit in the chest with a freakin' bowling ball, probably from the seat belt. The doctors saw no reason to believe that I was permanently damaged or required to stay at the hospital, but they did say that I will be extremely sore for awhile in the chest. I can still smell the airbags, hear the crash and all of that. The people they caught running away were apparently taken to the same hospital I was, though I never saw them. It was the same hospital I was born in, so obviously I recognized my old room and nursery, etc right away. On the way home from the hospital we drove by the scene of the accident, just because I wanted to face it immediately and not have that looming in the future. They did a nice job cleaning it up so fast. I have to get my car replaced. I am not looking forward to going through all of that red tape, even though I am fully covered. |
My poor car:
And there you have it! I do not recommend immitating my evening to anyone.
The car has been declared a total loss.
UPDATE: Pics of my new '08 Honda Civic EX (with manual transmission, of course) which replaced the wrecked car:
So I'm back rolling! I will update this page when I wreck this car.