[ ...FUCK ]
My Suck-o-meter has been going up the past week at an increasing rate. Today, it has spiked.
Melissa ended up having someone run into Natsuki (our Dark Blue Kia Sorento) today. I had asked her to get me a coffee using one of the free tickets we had gotten from work to get from Sheetz just down the street, since she doesn’t start work til an hour or so after I do. Mel does her U-turn (perfectly legal here, and the light was green), and stays in the far left lane as she’s supposed to. Then, like a bat out of hell, a guy in a white Ford truck decides he’s going to try to beat everyone for which the light has just turned green on his side turning right out of a Bank of America parking lot. And pulls directly out into the far left lane, instead of the right lane closest to him.
…right into Natsuki.
Neither car was drivable. Natsuki was apparently lifted from the ground, nearly flipping her. I don’t know how this guy managed to get the speed behind him to manage that considering he was coming from a parking lot, but that’s what happened. Thank God I wasn’t in the car at the time.
Meanwhile, Mel has obvious bruises developing on her chest from the seatbelt, and there’s a burn mark on her shoulder from that also. She is, of course, also very sore… all over. The EMS unit said she wouldn’t need to go to the Emergency Room. But generally in my book an accident heavy enough to make a car non-drivable + an existing degenerative spine disease = NOT GOOD. So, so not good.
Someone suggested a lawyer on this one… I’m thinking yes, considering she has no health insurance due to the number of circumstances…
Just… fuck…
Originally published at [ lone wolf ]. Please leave any comments there.