Lucky nobody was hurt..
I wrote this after my accident last month. Nowhere near as severe as the other stories I have read here but decided to share mine anyway.
I’m not physically hurt, somehow, and neither is the girl in the car with me. It was the most horrifying thing I’ve ever been through in my life. We were on the highway trying to get to this haunted theme park, and we decided we went too far and got off the highway to turn around. Well the exit we got off at was the most screwed up construction ever. We kept making wrong turns, and one of the times we had to turn around, we had a black cat cross out path [this happens to me more times than I can count and I have never thought anything of it, if anything I’ve thought it was good luck.] So when we finally find the ramp back on to the highway, I was coming off the ramp and looked to my left to see if I could get over, and hit the end of the concrete guardrail thing. It all happened SO fast. I heard her yell ‘watch out’ and I looked up and the second I saw the black and yellow guardrail we smashed right into it. The car spun I dont know how many times and we ended up facing oncoming traffic. She started yelling ‘get out get out!’ or else I probably would have sat there in shock, and when she said that I started panicking thinking the car would blow up. Her door wouldnt open, she had to climb out my side. The airbags went off and we both had our seatbelts on. It was all a blur and I never understood what it meant to have your life flash before you and it kind of happened to me. We both imagined getting out of the car bloody and mangled, I really thought I was going to die. We got out ran to the side of the road, and I was so scared that I got her hurt. I looked her up and down and kept asking if she was okay she said she didnt know she felt dizzy. We were getting stuck in the mudd I almost lost my shoes. It took me a few minutes to realize where we even where and that the car was sitting backwards in a highway lane. Because of this we could have jumped right into traffic, my head was spinning and both our phones were still somewhere in the car and I ran back to in to get out what I could. Super dangerous considering I almost ran over there still not realizing we were in the lane and almost ran into traffic if she wouldnt have yelled at me. We kept trying to wave people down and nobody would stop. After 3-5 minutes the police finally came and then the ambulance. They checked her out to make sure she was okay, she scratched up her arm. We had to sit in the back of a cruiser for a while and it was facing my car and I just kept staring at it.. the whole front end was completely mangled, the passenger side tire was laying flat… I could have got her killed. We came out with some bumps and bruises and two churning stomachs. The cop had to drive us to a gas station to get picked up, and I didnt want to be in a car. I was so tense. Then when our ride got there, he drove us exactly where it happened, I thought I was going to hurl. I started bawling and almost hyperventilated and just couldnt wait to get out of that car. I cant put into words how horrified I am, 4 hours later and my heads still spinning. I called everyone I know to tell them that I love them and I really feel that I want to change my ways. I want to live every day like its my last because today almost was my last. I am still spinning right now I just wanted to get all of this out..
Since the accident I haven’t been on the highway, and I dont plan to for a long time. The first week, my whole world just felt dark, literally and figuratively – I even had a friend bring over some extra lamps. I had flashbacks constantly for a couple weeks, and luckily only one nightmare about a crash, but several other horrifying nightmares about fires, murders, etc. I avoid cars like crazy, my heart sinks and I get nauseous when I see the black/yellow striped signs. Also, black cats, concrete barriers, highways/highway signs, ambulances, mud, the list goes on… I found out later that we actually landed in the V shape area between the on ramp and the first highway lane. My grandpa is a truck driver and he passed the area and said he could see my skid marks, and told me that the lane was shaped funny and that he didn’t think I really drifted, just didnt see it turn. The officer told us he wasn’t sure if we’d still be alive if it wasnt for our seatbelts. It’s been a month yesterday, and saturday nights are hard.. I wont get in a car, especially at night. I have so much in my heart for other survivors whose accidents were much worse, I cant even begin to imagine. I’ve always loved driving, and have been planning to take a huge road trip around the states.. Now, I’m not too sure.
