I did already make a post about this, but I want to add and clarify some things.
On March 10th I was in a pretty gnarly car accident. In my other post I showed the pictures of my car after the fact, but here’s one again:
I don’t remember what happened at all, but some time after the crash the incident report was released, which I read. According to the report, I was driving on the freeway when I came upon a mustang stopped up ahead. This car had been in a previous accident. I slowed down to not hit it, however a speeding Ram truck slammed into me, forcing me into the mustang pretty hard. A witness says that he saw the man, whom he described as bald and about middle aged, get out of his truck, hop over the center freeway divider, get in some Lexus going the other direction, and take off. I know, weird shit, I have SO MANY questions. The gal in the mustang was taken to the same hospital I was and also reportedly did not remember what happened.
About not remembering: So, they (police or paramedics, I’m not sure which) found me unresponsive. I didn’t hit my head on anything, but the whiplash gave me a pretty significant concussion (assuming they didn’t reach me within 60 seconds, that would indicate it was a grade 4 concussion). As a result of the head trauma, I had both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The last thing I remember prior to the crash was getting in my car to leave and go home. I do not remember the crash itself, or the days I spent in the hospital, or a few days after being sent home. So a period of at least 5 days, if not 6 or 7, is completely missing; I don’t remember a single thing from that period. I’m not exactly sure at what point I became aware of what was going on, I just remember being at home (parents’ house) and understanding that I was in a car crash. I was in quite a bit of pain, and up to that point I had needed to use a walker. I remember seeing the walker in the corner of the room, but I have no memory of actually using it. It’s so strange.
Once I was in the hospital they contacted my mom by finding her info on the vehicle registration, or something like that. She came, and I guess at some point she reached out to my boyfriend and he came to visit me. I don’t know how many times he came or how long he was there for.
My mom has told me a little bit about how I was in the hospital, and I don’t even know how to feel about it. She said that I seemed aware of what was going on, however I acted in ways I would never act if I were actually self aware. I don’t know what I was doing, but mom said that at one point they literally had to call in backup to restrain me. I was constantly crying and carrying on, and would literally scream anytime a nurse or doctor would touch me at all, even just a light touch. I was in a shared room with multiple beds and multiple patients, and I was being loud and obnoxious as fuck, just crying, screaming, and carrying on. My mom was embarrassed. One night my mom went home to get some sleep, and literally 1 hour after she left, she got a phone call. I had begged a nurse to let me call her. I was asking where she was. So I guess I was aware enough to realize that she was there before but wasn’t there anymore.
The only tests I’m aware that they did at the hospital are the CT scan (which came out fine, no major bleeds or skull fractures), and the blood test. They informed my mom that they would be sending the toxicology report to the DMV, because of what they found in my system. I’m an addict, yes, however the crash was in no way my fault, and I was not driving high. Hopefully no restrictions will be placed on my license… I haven’t heard anything in regard to that so I think that’s a good sign…
This post ended up being A LOT longer than I intended, but I still have so much to talk about. For other posts they’ll have to be.
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Once when we were involved in a similar car crash when my older sister was driving, she was at 60 mph and wasn't sure whether or not to pass the traffic lights already showing yellow. The slightly distracted guys in the car behind us had assumed her to go through, and it was like a 4 seconds thing where I usually heard small "boom" noises with things falling off the seats, suddenly there was a metallic loud "BOOM", I looked through the window and saw these guys rolling by, having hit our car at the corner where I was actually seated. The driver seemed nervous, until he opened up confessing that this was the car of his girlfriend. Nevertheless my sister was still upset wondering if she was about to get her driver's license restricted since she should have passed the traffic lights. But in my case it seems to be this typical "brake or speed" question at traffic lights. I guess I'm mentioning this because maybe the girl in your case must have lacked of attention.
