I wasn't quite sure where to put this, still a bit dazed...
@DarthVixen and I got rear-ended last night on the freeway while I was driving his Sienna minivan. We were going with the flow of traffic, which was pretty light and just gradually slowing from 60 (as we were approaching a construction zone) when we were just suddenly hit from behind and sent spinning.
Both vehicles were totaled.
We're okay, got checked out at the ER and I have a sprain in my neck and he has some bumps and bruises but for the most part just sore. The driver was up and about, checked on us right afterwards and was saying that he "looked down for just a second", and when he looked up he was on top of us.
It wasn't until our ambulance was leaving the scene that the driver noticed more smashed vehicles and dazed people walking around and called the responders over to help them, too. A 3 vehicle accident happened just after ours, in a collision I suspect was related considering we spun more than 180 degrees at high speed through 2 lanes. From what I overheard in the ER it sounded like one person was seriously injured.
The crash happened around 11:42pm last night, we finally got back from the ER around 5am and I was woken a few hours later with an unrelated medical emergency that had me in severe pain and vomiting and other goodness for a couple hours.
Now today we're trying to tackle insurance stuff and so far the insurance of the person who rear-ended us is not immediately accepting liability. This is surprising, because we were told this is a pretty cut and dried case. On scene the driver who hit us claimed he was going 40mph, but that really doesn't make sense as I know we were going 60 a few seconds prior and I hadn't braked, just took my foot off the gas.
One relief through all this to know that there's nothing I could have done to prevent it. It's also something that doesn't compute well in my brain. You can just be driving along the freeway with light traffic minding your own business and someone slams you from behind out of the blue.
I'm glad we're okay, and it now gives me the luxury of wanting answers and wanting things to get sorted out. Some family members are giving us a hard time and really don't get how serious the accident was and how lucky we are no one else hit us as we were spinning out and came to a stop facing oncoming traffic directly in its path.
So....that happened. Still trying to figure out how life comes back together after something like this.
@DarthVixen and I got rear-ended last night on the freeway while I was driving his Sienna minivan. We were going with the flow of traffic, which was pretty light and just gradually slowing from 60 (as we were approaching a construction zone) when we were just suddenly hit from behind and sent spinning.
Both vehicles were totaled.
We're okay, got checked out at the ER and I have a sprain in my neck and he has some bumps and bruises but for the most part just sore. The driver was up and about, checked on us right afterwards and was saying that he "looked down for just a second", and when he looked up he was on top of us.
It wasn't until our ambulance was leaving the scene that the driver noticed more smashed vehicles and dazed people walking around and called the responders over to help them, too. A 3 vehicle accident happened just after ours, in a collision I suspect was related considering we spun more than 180 degrees at high speed through 2 lanes. From what I overheard in the ER it sounded like one person was seriously injured.
The crash happened around 11:42pm last night, we finally got back from the ER around 5am and I was woken a few hours later with an unrelated medical emergency that had me in severe pain and vomiting and other goodness for a couple hours.
Now today we're trying to tackle insurance stuff and so far the insurance of the person who rear-ended us is not immediately accepting liability. This is surprising, because we were told this is a pretty cut and dried case. On scene the driver who hit us claimed he was going 40mph, but that really doesn't make sense as I know we were going 60 a few seconds prior and I hadn't braked, just took my foot off the gas.
One relief through all this to know that there's nothing I could have done to prevent it. It's also something that doesn't compute well in my brain. You can just be driving along the freeway with light traffic minding your own business and someone slams you from behind out of the blue.
I'm glad we're okay, and it now gives me the luxury of wanting answers and wanting things to get sorted out. Some family members are giving us a hard time and really don't get how serious the accident was and how lucky we are no one else hit us as we were spinning out and came to a stop facing oncoming traffic directly in its path.
So....that happened. Still trying to figure out how life comes back together after something like this.
