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Regardless your religious beliefs, allow me mine this time -- please! Here by the Grace of God I, and I'm still alive.
Thursday about 8:45 am. I ran into a vertical Granite Mountain (Little Gopher Canyon). For thous peripatetic physicists I forgot two critical pieces of information. I was going at the time somewhere between 40 and 50 mph. I staggered out under my own power - having flipped and rolled. I used a lot of my remaining energy chatting up the Calif Highway Patrol (I NOT feel guilty in doing so. Every accident merely reminds me of physics and the laws of physics.
We agreed the road was used. It was also we agreed cold well for out here, and finally concluded the actual accident should be labeled, unknown reason.
I knew the reason. But I'd have looked a little bit like self aggrandizement had I told the officers, even an officer who loved the esprit de corp of talking with another officer (me: for 7 1/2 years)the accident just that, an accident.
The reason was simple: A Huge truck 45' was headed west, up the hill. Nothing behind the truck. I'd almost cleared the end of the hood of my Volvo when I encountered what I had not thought possible. A speeder coming down the
So I took off, rolling through my stop sign at full acceleration only to find (a HollyWood rolling stop-there is no such thing) There is nothing in the law that sanctions rolling through a stop sight except when waved through by a police officer. I got to the rear of the truck and Oh MY GOD there was an SUV filled with kids headed down the steep. I had one and only one choice, I took it, I cleared the road ruining my car and saving a car with kids from an accident. I was fortunate. I didn't kill a bunch of little kids.
My car is a write-off. everything I'd packed was scattered or destroyed. The following day I was to leave for Oklahoma and RLT.
The body seems okay, though I'll take a bunch of tests next. I got a lot of breaks in this insident. The biggest was I was in a Volvo. Seatbelts, seats, all worked correctly. I coughed smoke from the seat-belt for 20 minutes.
My wife quite rightly berated me.
The most important thing for those kids? The driver was probably busier quieting the volume of the kids.
I care not if you If you hear it from no one else this weekend I love you. I even love Stan!
With heartfelt thanks, praise and grateful to God's Grace.
Comments
Wow, are you going to be OK?
You do not have to answer this but when I was taking a bunch of drugs, I had 4 accidents in two months. Thankfully, they were minor.
Glad to hear
you're okay, sorry about the car, but at least you can get another one though I suppose if you're off to do the RLT, it could be argued you're off to get another one of those too. Good luck.
Angharad
glad you're still with us
must have been an angel watching over you.
Hopefully, you didnt lose anything you cant replace.
I am glad
to hear you are OK. I do understand your logic, and when you didn't have seconds to think about it you made a good choice.
I have to be honest, I would love to meet you in person sometime. We would have a lot to talk about I think.
uhm
what the heck is a "huge truck 45"?
coughing on smoke from seat belt I guess means the explosive seatbelts(no really there is an explosive in them that goes off instead of an airbag, which also has an explosive charge) side note who would think that explosives would be used as safety devices in cars? either way the fumes are TOXIC get a blood test asap.
hope you get well and can start your RLT soon.