accident
So yesterday afternoon I was driving my mom's van out of Courtenay northbound on the Old Island Highway. JJ was in the passenger seat and Moe was sitting in the seat behind the drivers' side. There was a white van in front of us that turned right onto Hardy Rd, and there was a little red 2 door car in the left turning lane westboud on Hardey road, looking to turn left to go southbound on the Island Highway. I assumed that they'd seen me, and they assumed that with the white van turning right they would have enough room to make their left turn. They didn't. Not near enough. I saw them coming and slammed on the brakes, but the road was slick and we hit the front drivers-side door nice and hard.
I remember the impact, and i could have sworn our tires burst, but they didn't... the resistance I felt was us pushing the other car to the side. The ended up at a 45 degree angle ahead of us. Moe flew forward (there are no shoulder straps in the back of the van) and hit his face on the back of my seat. The first thing I remember hearing what him screaming for mom. I turned around and he was bleeding. I asked JJ if he was OK, to which he answered "Wow, so that's what it's like being in a car crash! ya, I'm fine."
I grabbed some baby wipes from beside my seat and gave them to Moe for his nose. There were people everywhere, one woman was a doctor and she came around and gave the boys blankets. Moe had stopped crying, and was OK, but his face was bruised pretty badly on the right side. I noticed that my collarbone stung from where the seatbelt was, and I had a bruised knuckle. JJ said his hip hurt, but I looked and there was no damage that I could see. A paramedic came and had Moe follow his finger and tell him if he could feel him pinching his toes, and JJ stood up and walked on his hip for him.
We sat in the car until the police came, they took a statement from me and we sat in the car some more. Another paramedic came and said they had to take Moe to the hospital. He flipped. He started crying and wouldn't let go of me, they put him in a neck brace and moved him onto a stretcher, and he cried and screamed for me... I couldn't stay right with him, I was in their way, and they had to pull his hands off of mine. I wasn't in much better shape... everytime he screamed for his sister I felt like someone was ripping my heart from my chest...
I gave my statement again to another officer with a digital recorder, but I could hear Moe crying as they got him into the van, and I could see JJ gathering things from the car, and it killed me to stand there while this guy tried to figure out how the stupid recorder worked.... fiddle fiddle... fiddle... confused look, fiddle some more... "yes, um.. this is officer blah blah, I'm in Courtenay at the corner of Hardey and the Island Highway on this day at this time..." blah blah... I was ready to kick him.
Finally he let me go, and Josh had arrived. he was talking to JJ, and they grabbed the bags and said they'd meet us at the hospital. I ran over to the ambulance, but I had to sit in the front.
There were 4 people in the other car, and they all got off much worse than we did, yet the doctors said that everyone involved in the crash was very lucky. They had to tear the smashed door off of the car to get them out, and all four of them were taken away in stretchers.
They were 100% at fault....
Moe was taken to the hospital and I checked him in and waited with him till the doctors could come. He was calmed down by then, but immensely unhappy about the whole situation, being all strapped into a back brace and everything. I played thumb-war with him. Mar and Taylor showed up with JJ and Josh and Mar held me so tight I almost started crying... Moe was just fine. bruises and a goose-egg, but just fine other than that. JJ says he's sore today, sounds like he's got a minor case of whiplash. I need to go and get everything out of the van. one of my knuckles is purple and a little swollen, makes me wonder if I might have just lightly fractured something, it's got the feeling that my finger did when I broke it years ago, but it's not bad and I can move my fingers OK, so we're all good. My knee swelled up a bit and it was hard to walk for a while, but it's only a little purple and going down now. I've got a good chunk of skin taken away from my collarbone, and it stings like hell, but other than that I'm fine. My kneck hurts and my back hurts and my chest feels bruised, but it's nothing serious, just achy tension and all.
thank God. our guardian angels were working overtime. I can't help wondering what would have happened if I'd been driving Kitty... we would have been injured SO much worse! the windsheild would have broken and... I don't want to think about it. Praise God. I prayed with the boys as soon as I'd made sure everyone was OK.
It was too cute, I was trying to get Moe to cheer up a little when he was on the back brace, and the ambulance guy was like "You can tell all the kids at school about this" and Moe was like "this isn't something to brag about" in a really serious and rather grumpy voice. Plus the doctor said that Moe was really tough, and seemed surprised, and Moe kept complaining bitterly that everyone was asking him the same questions, and looked at them like they were stupid, and how dare they not believe him when he said he was OK?
lol
The whole time JJ was like "can I still go to Heathers'? am I going to make it to Heather's? can I call Heather?" his friend Heather lives in Campbell River and he was heading to stay the weekend with her. Mar and Taylor drove him down there after we all got home. They were heading to Campbell River anyway.
*sigh* I made the ICBC claim and everything... they haven't called me back, so I'm just gonna go take stuff from the car and see if I can get a ride into Cambpell River. Moe's poking me. We spent the night playing WOW and watching Grease and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. happy happy.
I remember the impact, and i could have sworn our tires burst, but they didn't... the resistance I felt was us pushing the other car to the side. The ended up at a 45 degree angle ahead of us. Moe flew forward (there are no shoulder straps in the back of the van) and hit his face on the back of my seat. The first thing I remember hearing what him screaming for mom. I turned around and he was bleeding. I asked JJ if he was OK, to which he answered "Wow, so that's what it's like being in a car crash! ya, I'm fine."
I grabbed some baby wipes from beside my seat and gave them to Moe for his nose. There were people everywhere, one woman was a doctor and she came around and gave the boys blankets. Moe had stopped crying, and was OK, but his face was bruised pretty badly on the right side. I noticed that my collarbone stung from where the seatbelt was, and I had a bruised knuckle. JJ said his hip hurt, but I looked and there was no damage that I could see. A paramedic came and had Moe follow his finger and tell him if he could feel him pinching his toes, and JJ stood up and walked on his hip for him.
We sat in the car until the police came, they took a statement from me and we sat in the car some more. Another paramedic came and said they had to take Moe to the hospital. He flipped. He started crying and wouldn't let go of me, they put him in a neck brace and moved him onto a stretcher, and he cried and screamed for me... I couldn't stay right with him, I was in their way, and they had to pull his hands off of mine. I wasn't in much better shape... everytime he screamed for his sister I felt like someone was ripping my heart from my chest...
I gave my statement again to another officer with a digital recorder, but I could hear Moe crying as they got him into the van, and I could see JJ gathering things from the car, and it killed me to stand there while this guy tried to figure out how the stupid recorder worked.... fiddle fiddle... fiddle... confused look, fiddle some more... "yes, um.. this is officer blah blah, I'm in Courtenay at the corner of Hardey and the Island Highway on this day at this time..." blah blah... I was ready to kick him.
Finally he let me go, and Josh had arrived. he was talking to JJ, and they grabbed the bags and said they'd meet us at the hospital. I ran over to the ambulance, but I had to sit in the front.
There were 4 people in the other car, and they all got off much worse than we did, yet the doctors said that everyone involved in the crash was very lucky. They had to tear the smashed door off of the car to get them out, and all four of them were taken away in stretchers.
They were 100% at fault....
Moe was taken to the hospital and I checked him in and waited with him till the doctors could come. He was calmed down by then, but immensely unhappy about the whole situation, being all strapped into a back brace and everything. I played thumb-war with him. Mar and Taylor showed up with JJ and Josh and Mar held me so tight I almost started crying... Moe was just fine. bruises and a goose-egg, but just fine other than that. JJ says he's sore today, sounds like he's got a minor case of whiplash. I need to go and get everything out of the van. one of my knuckles is purple and a little swollen, makes me wonder if I might have just lightly fractured something, it's got the feeling that my finger did when I broke it years ago, but it's not bad and I can move my fingers OK, so we're all good. My knee swelled up a bit and it was hard to walk for a while, but it's only a little purple and going down now. I've got a good chunk of skin taken away from my collarbone, and it stings like hell, but other than that I'm fine. My kneck hurts and my back hurts and my chest feels bruised, but it's nothing serious, just achy tension and all.
thank God. our guardian angels were working overtime. I can't help wondering what would have happened if I'd been driving Kitty... we would have been injured SO much worse! the windsheild would have broken and... I don't want to think about it. Praise God. I prayed with the boys as soon as I'd made sure everyone was OK.
It was too cute, I was trying to get Moe to cheer up a little when he was on the back brace, and the ambulance guy was like "You can tell all the kids at school about this" and Moe was like "this isn't something to brag about" in a really serious and rather grumpy voice. Plus the doctor said that Moe was really tough, and seemed surprised, and Moe kept complaining bitterly that everyone was asking him the same questions, and looked at them like they were stupid, and how dare they not believe him when he said he was OK?
lol
The whole time JJ was like "can I still go to Heathers'? am I going to make it to Heather's? can I call Heather?" his friend Heather lives in Campbell River and he was heading to stay the weekend with her. Mar and Taylor drove him down there after we all got home. They were heading to Campbell River anyway.
*sigh* I made the ICBC claim and everything... they haven't called me back, so I'm just gonna go take stuff from the car and see if I can get a ride into Cambpell River. Moe's poking me. We spent the night playing WOW and watching Grease and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. happy happy.