I was in a car crash several years ago; it was actually a life-changing incident, though thankfully there were no fatalities. A moron was speeding and just as my grandmother's van began to trundle over the give way line, it was approaching us. I didn't notice what was happening (the passengers [mom, grandmother, me] were all arguing and I was saying something angry), but apparently my mother did. My mother turned around to look at me in the last second and she was visibly frightened, and then the car hit us. It went black for a moment and then my eyes were opened and there was the shattering noise and everything and I was scared as hell 'cause I could hear my mother screaming for my grandmother.
I think I might've blacked out for a moment, because I found out after the accident that the first impact pushed us into a parked car on the side of the road, and we bounced back (not literally bounce but) into a hedge on the corner of the road. My grandmother had passed out and my mother was freaking out, but I was in shock so I was calm. We were in a strange town but fortunately we managed to crash a block away from a hospital and some off-duty nurses were just cruising back from it when they saw what happened. My mother has post traumatic stress disorder (even worse because of this) and was going absolutely berserk. They had to cut my grandmother out because her door got ruined. My grandmother was kept in for observation for a night but was alright, except she was quite sore for awhile so we had her stay with us. My mother had nothing wrong with her physically, well, ostensibly, but years later she's been going through a difficult case claim that is finally over, because they've been slowly finding a lot wrong with her bones that seems to have been caused by the crash, it's quite crazy, as well as psychologically.
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Nothing happened to me physically except my glasses fell off, because we'd pulled over awhile ago and I'd gotten out. Then I had gotten back into the van but been too lazy to slide over to the side I was previously sitting in. If I had been sitting on that side (driver's), I would have taken the full impact of the first hit and possibly been quite hurt, since it slammed mostly into the passenger seat. Emotionally I am still very jumpy and anxious around cars since it was scary as hell and I tend to get frightened when someone is driving, particularly my father since he drives erratically. My mother goes through the same thing; she will never sit in the passenger seat again because of it. She sits in the back seat instead. Despite the injuries to my mother, we were very lucky to not sustain anything worse and I'm thankful for that. Fuck the idiot speeding (we never saw him/her again).
While that crash really sucked, nobody died and for that I am just so so grateful. I am really sorry to hear about those of you who have lost people :( PS fuck stupid drivers, it really makes me mad, not only are you threatening your own lives but everyone else's. Their prerogative to piss away their own lives if that's what they want, but they aren't the only people on the road. By the way this is highly topical in general since Christmas/New Years holiday period always has a higher incidence of car crashes, particularly fatal ones :/