2008 Hyundai Tucson. Not a mark on it. Paid for, too.
Then what must have been a blind driver T-boned us on the driver's side rear corner.
One minute I'm just sat in the passenger seat then BANG! the next minute I'm
hanging sideways in my safety strap looking down at my wife asking
"Are you still alive?"
The Tucson had been rolled completely over and had finally landed on it's driver's side pointing 270º from
where it was heading.
And some clown is shouting through the shattered windshield about how sorry he was
that he's hit us and that he'd already sent for emergency services.
So the Firemen cut the roof off the Hyundai, the Cops talked to the guy who'd hit us,
and the Ambulance men put neck braces on us strapped us to stretchers and drove us to hospital.
3 hours of X-rays, MRIs, pokes & prods later plus 3 stitches in my right hand courtesy of our windshield
later we get released and our daughter-in-law drove us home. Shaken AND stirred but no bones broken
although you'd be amazed at our technicolor bruises.
It's also amazing how quickly one passes through being grateful to have survived a total write-off
with (hopefully) recoverable injuries to being pissed off at having to start making payments on a replacement vehicle.
Then what must have been a blind driver T-boned us on the driver's side rear corner.
One minute I'm just sat in the passenger seat then BANG! the next minute I'm
hanging sideways in my safety strap looking down at my wife asking
"Are you still alive?"
The Tucson had been rolled completely over and had finally landed on it's driver's side pointing 270º from
where it was heading.
And some clown is shouting through the shattered windshield about how sorry he was
that he's hit us and that he'd already sent for emergency services.
So the Firemen cut the roof off the Hyundai, the Cops talked to the guy who'd hit us,
and the Ambulance men put neck braces on us strapped us to stretchers and drove us to hospital.
3 hours of X-rays, MRIs, pokes & prods later plus 3 stitches in my right hand courtesy of our windshield
later we get released and our daughter-in-law drove us home. Shaken AND stirred but no bones broken
although you'd be amazed at our technicolor bruises.
It's also amazing how quickly one passes through being grateful to have survived a total write-off
with (hopefully) recoverable injuries to being pissed off at having to start making payments on a replacement vehicle.