Whelp… that’s mah car.
That picture doesn’t even do it justice. The tire is at a very awkward angle, the passenger side is smashed, and the entire car has been shifted towards my driver’s side. As in, there’s damage on the driver’s side AND THAT WASN’T EVEN HIT!
So, I’m driving home from work today and decide to stop at the bank to deposit my paycheck. I’m just driving along pretty carefully since some of the streetlights were out from this five minute storm we had.
I get to about a block away from the bank. I have a green light, there’s a few people I see ahead of me that go, I get to the light and go through… just to get hit by some guy going through the red light. I mean he SLAMMED right into me. I’m pretty sure I yelled. I’m shaken, I start crying, I look over (my car is jammed along his driver’s side at this point) and he can’t get out, his passenger is crying and breathing hard, and I didn’t even notice the third guy in the back until I was out of my car.
I’m shaking and crying, some really nice guy (I think he worked near there) comes over, helps me out, asks if I’m okay, and tells me I can move to the sidewalk. I see the firetruck coming, and the guy says if I need to to sit down cause I’m still crying.
These two people from the side of the road run over to me. They were the sweetest people ever. They say they were sitting in their parked car and saw the whole thing, how I had a green and the other guy had a red light. They gave me their numbers (one of the firemen who got there three seconds later gave me a pen), and then said they’d hang around until my mom got there (who I called and cried to). I texted Ashley and she walked over from the bank (though she didn’t get there til Mom did).
Everyone kept asking if I was okay. I was just shaken from being in an accident. I kept looking at my completely fucked up car and thinking, “I just fixed those fucking brakes!” The two witnesses were the sweetest, kept telling me it wasn’t my fault. One of them went and got me a water bottle, which almost made me cry. I told them I wished my sister had had people like them at her accident, she got screwed since the cop never took witnesses.
Cops came, and he was nice too. Got my license and everything. Explained that he got the witnesses stories and it matched mine. All the while, the passenger in the other car is being taken to the hospital. I don’t know about the other two in the car, I wasn’t really paying attention to them.
By the time Mom got there, just the cop and my two witnesses were there. And a tow truck was on the way for the cars. Ash turned up like two seconds later. Mom actually looked at the drivers side of my car and said it didn’t look too bad just a bit dented… and then I told her she was looking at the wrong side. Yeah… Thankfully the cop gave me the report and all the other car’s insurance information, so we can get all that settled. I’m still so thankful for the two witnesses. They really helped even just by being there.
I called everyone. Called Dave while I was sitting waiting for the tow truck to get there. Cried to him for a bit. Texted people. I was just in shock from all of it. And everyone keeps asking if I’m okay, and I’m fine. I got a bit of a headache later, but I think it might’ve just been from all the stress and noise. And I’m getting a purple bruise where I guess I hit my leg into the steering wheel.
But I’m okay. That’s all I can really think right now. I just need to be thankful that I’m okay.
