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As Promised her is a post from you promised list.

First a little history: My Brother Nate moved in with us a few months ago (Nov.) and he has been driving Lance's truck, just until he can buy himself a car. (yes, he does pay us, we're not that generous) But we do enjoy him being with us.

SO that being said... On Dec. 10 (my anniversary) I had a doctors apointment so I needed a car, I got up early and took Nate to work so that I would have one. I rolled out of bed, brushed my teeth and left. I dropped him off safely. Then on my way back I was going through an intersection and the light turned yellow & a PT Cruiser made a left turn right in front of me, I slammed on my breaks, but slid right in to them none the less. It was Horrible. There was nothing I could do to avoid it.

This is what the truck looked like

this pic. doesn't do it justice, but it's the best I have

And here is the PT Cruiser after the jaws of life took the door off

OUCH!!!!

I hit a Man and his wife, his wife was in the passenger seat. This happened shortly after 7 am on a Wednesday this intersection was pretty crowded, there were at least 20+ people who witnessed it, and NOBODY stopped!!! Obviously this was a bad accident a Ford F350 (a big truck) just plowed into a PT Cruiser (a small car)!!!! Since I had just rolled out of bed and gotten in the car with Nate, I didn't have my purse or phone, the couple didn't have a cell phone either. I Had to flag someone down, to call 911. And I am not kidding when I say 15 people just drove right by me. Finally a Taxi stopped (go figure) and I asked him to call, he did and it only took a couple minutes for them to come. WARNING- this next part is not for the weak stomached, skip to the next paragraph. The Jaws of life had to be used to get her out because the door wouldn't open and part of the door actually was insider her leg, you could see it (her leg guts) through the door. It was awful.

The ambulance took the couple away, but I had to stay until they heard back weather or not "she made it" I couldn't 'believe it she might die! (Then they would have to call in the CSI for car accidents) I guess they had to determine if she had cut a main artery in her leg, then she would have had the possibility of loosing too much blood. I got to leave at 9:30 the word being that they were going to have to cut off her leg. (relief, but still bad news, at least she wasn't 'going to die)

I walked a way with nothing. the next day I was just a tiny bit stiff, I've had worse from sleeping wrong. The driver of the PT just had a few scratches from all the broken glass, and after talking to their insurance people, she didn't loose her leg, she shattered her knee cap and had a pretty nasty gash that was almost the whole length of her thigh. The whole rest of the day the accident just kept replaying over and over in my head, every time I tried to close my eyes it was all I could see. Lance took the day off and took care of Mia , and for 2 days after I had a hard time getting behind the wheel, and for quite a while (and sometimes still) I get tense when going through a yellow light. It was a huge blessing 1-that I was driving the truck not the Camry, 2-I was alone, that never happens, Mia is usually with me, and 3- ultimately everyone was just fine. We were all being looked over that day. It is Jan. 3 and I'm still driving a rental car, but we should have the truck back on Monday.