I got into a car accident. RIP: Princess Nell
I got into a car accident and probably totaled my car. I’ll update this post with any relevant information as to the accident, lest I have to explain it to a bajillion people :3
Firstly. I am fine and alive. Thanks for asking.
I’m referring to my car, which I named my car Princess Nell after the main character of The Diamond Age. Things are not looking good for her. I have pictures but they are being held hostage on my phone and have to probably beat up Aaron and steal his phone cable thingy.
It happened here. Here’s the street view, but it’s bad cuz there’s cars in the way. GOOGLE MAPS IS THE BEST.
So I’m (I am the Miata, of course) at a green light wanting to turn left. This is a horrible intersection, but one that I take literally every morning on my way to work. I know the intersection well, as well as all the bullshit that goes on. In the illustration you’ll see that the ‘bottom’ lane, the farthest lane away from me on the oncoming side, is empty. This is usually because there’s a bus at the bus stop across the street, and then continuing east down Sunset, there’s a few spots down ahead that people eventually park in, and there’s the merge, so if you’re a regular here, you know really to not scoot around in that lane because you’re going to eventually have to merge.
So I assess the information I see. From my vantage point, I see backed up traffic. The light is green, but the oncoming traffic appears to be stationary. I look in my rear views and see a red light behind me. This means, in my head, ok, dead traffic, it’s a green light but nobody is coming, and even if they are, there’s a red light ahead.
So I figure in my head, two lanes of stationary traffic in front of me, (not counting the oncoming turn lane, the one that’s directly across from me,) but the light is green, I better go because I’ll be here all day, since I’m not getting the arrow. So I work my way out. I, like a good boy, turn into the close lane.
WHEN SUDDENLY…
Except Korean = Scion
HAHAHAHA Thanks Oizys:
As I’m doing so, imagine my surprise when both of my airbags deploy, I feel like I’ve been slapped upside my head. The car fills with ’smoke’ and I have a shockwave of numbness in my body. This flashed before my eyes. The kitten in a cup in this figure represents said impact.
My view is nothing but smoke and airbags, and when I shake off the stun, I look up and see two cars staring at me. Duder smacked into me so hard that I got pushed basically into the stationary oncoming traffic at that point. Either fender kissed the fenders of the two cars I was splitting.
-The blue Jetta actually, I smacked into her car so hard that it dented her axle. Sad to say, she had just gotten the car back and fixed from another accident. She was fine, but needed her car to be towed.
-The ‘red’ SUV had two kids and a Dad in it. I am so, so greatful that they and everyone else were ok. Granted, his car would have and could have eaten mine for dinner, it was driven off the scene in one piece..
-The Scion was ripped to shit. The entire front of the car was chunked out, it was leaking fluids all over the place. Def total’d.
-My car is shot to shit as well, most likely totaled. Airbags alone cost thousands of dollars to replace, and mine blew two of them. Poor Nellodee ;-; It’s fix-able but stuff like bent axles and stuff just affect the car forever, and I think that would bum me out a bit.
My body: My right rib hurts from the seatbelt. My guts are rumbly, probably just rearranging themselves. My left shoulder and collarbone has some cool-ass looking speckles and bruises on it. I have a lump and cut on my right forehead. My left knee hurts to walk a tidbit, I’m limping around like woah. I’m going to the doctor tomorrow, if they’ll see me.
Another interesting thing: The police showed up, and didn’t do an accident report. Because there were no serious injuries, like broken bones or cuts on faces kind of serious, they said to just relay the info to the insurance companies and let them sort out the situation.
I’m covered, I have a decent deductible, and then also a rental/loaner set up and waiting for me.
But I’m alive, and that’s all that matters!
I’ll update this with more info as time passes. Right now I’m just waiting on the insurance peeps to check out the intersection and then the damage to the car.
UUUUPDATE - Monday the 22nd:
Went to get my loaner first thing, but they had to take me to the DMV to get my license renewed. Lolwhups. In what was the fastest DMV ever, I was in my loaner car by Noonish. I have a sky-blue Hyundai Accent. It’s pretty. I don’t know if I’m happy about having a pretty car though.
Doctor says I’m fine, I’m on an anti-inflammatory and I have some vicadin if it gets worse, which he says it will, but I CHALLENGE HIS DIAGNOSIS. So yeah, I’m alive, I’m not die.
I got my drugs and am currently chilling.
I need to call one of the insurance companies tomorrow.
UUUUPDATE - Tuesday the 23rd:
Body check: My knee is better to the point of no limping, but if I press on it it’s still sore.
My rib is similar in concept, I can fill my lungs with with air with a minimum of soreness, but if I try to do a sit up (like sitting up in bed) it’s still sore. My left shoulder and arm are a bit sore, especially now that the bruises are coming up. My neck, knock of formica, is completely fine. Lots of people have said ‘omg your neck, gg’ but other then a little stiffness yesterday, it’s completely fine. So either I’ll eat my words and at some point my neck will fall off, or I somehow lucked out.
I guess what the doctor mentioned was that a lot of muscle injuries happen in car accidents because you tense up and lock up your entire body, and then the external forces are applied to it and it rips up and tears up the muscles that are locked up and fighting against moving. Drunk drivers don’t get hurt as much because they don’t have the reaction time to tense up. He said that might be the case with me, because (no, I wasn’t drinking) I didn’t even see the guy coming so of course I didn’t have time to react, just got blindsided.
Seriously I feel like I used up what last bit of good Karma I’d been saving up.
UUUUPDATE - Tuesday the 24th:
The insurance chick called me asking me when I was going to drop off my car at the shop. Funny, I thought it was at the shop. =P I’ll have to see wtf she’s talking about. It could either mean she has the wrong shop, it never made it to the shop, or it needs to be at a different shop.