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Detail from Artwork at the Entrance to Our Local Emergency Room
August 2015
Last Saturday we were part of a nine or ten car accident on the highway. My guess, from the look of it, was that a driver was texting and looked up to see the cars in front of him had slowed down considerably. He hit the brakes, weaved to the right, then to the left, then shot out into the middle lane and disappeared -- leaving a chain reaction of cars hitting each other in his wake.
Bonn was driving and working together we managed to not hit the car in front of us (by inches) but we did get hit from behind. Bonn saw the driver in the rear view mirror and tensed up just before the impact so she was hurt worse than I was.
Despite the fast-lane-on-the-highway speeds, all but one of the cars involved was able to drive away from the scene. Bonn's 4Runner wasn't damaged at all -- the car behind us hit the tow bar and never made it as far as the body of the car.
After a long afternoon spent on the side of the highway and at our local Emergency Room (Bonn experience numbness down her left arm) we got home and collapsed from it all.
We were certainly lucky. The accident and our injuries were relatively minor. It was one of those Blink of an Eye moments that could have changed -- or ended -- our lives for the worse.
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An Additional Tip o' the Hat to the cops and the EMS on the scene and the hospital staff. I know this was a fairly common occurrence for them but they handled the situation and the people professionally and with concern for our well-being.
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