Damn, I'm sore.:(
No broken bones or serious injuries, so I consider myself very lucky.
Yesterday, driving south on Hwy #9 from Frisco to Breckenridge I was hit head on by a northbound car driven by an 18 year old kid. He was okay and I'm okay, although they put me on a backboard and hauled me off in the ambulance after I complained of lower neck pain(whiplash). The roads were completely dry.:confused:
The kid just simply lost control of his car due to some sort of preoccupation, started fishtailing, careened off the guardrail and skidded out of control across the yellow line and into my lane. I tried to get over in my lane as far as I could, but had no where to go.
The front passenger side of his Chevy Malibu slammed into the front driver side of my Isuzu Rodeo. Glass went everwhere, airbags deployed and smoke filled the car. "Holy shit, I think I'm alright", I thought to myself. Still dazed and not knowing where the smoke was coming from, I kicked my door open and got out of the vehicle as quickly as possible. I looked at my truck and it wasn't on fire.
Seeing that the other driver was okay and standing next to his totalled car, I exclaim: "What the fuck were you doing?!"
"Um, I think I hit some ice", he replies.
"Ice?!!" I looked back at the completely dry roads.
By now, lots of people had stopped to help and were calling 911. My friend Dave who happened to be driving by, noticed my demolished vehicle and stopped to help. I knew I wasn't hurt seriously, but the pain in my lower neck was growing by the minute. I got an ambulance ride to the hospital for x-rays and a CAT scan as a precautionary measure.
My truck is totalled and while I'm really sore, I wasn't seriously injured. I'm really thankful that I was by myself and didn't have my wife and 21 month old daughter in the vehicle. It was very traumatic and I'm not sure how my wife would've handled it.
I was traveling at 45mph and the cop estimated that the kid's car was traveling between 35 and 45 by the time we made contact.
No turns for me for a few days, until I can shake the soreness in my neck. Thank God for seatbelts and airbags.:)
