Never drive faster than your guardian angels can fly.
Horrible accident. Outside Nashville. 1:13 p.m. Excellent weather conditions, heavy traffic, possibly a heavy pocket of traffic.
Overtaking big white car, SUV? Pickup? Something big that did not see us on its left overtaking with traffic.
Oh God, it is coming into our lane.
Honk
HOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNK. I'm trying but they aren't responding.
THEY ARE GOING TO HIT US
Split second decision. Do I let them hit us where my baby is or swerve to miss. I could hit gravel, small shoulder, if I swerve, and I will lose control. WHAT DO I DO???????????????
I swerve.
We set off in a spin.
The only think I can think is relax relax relax relax relax the most relax people do not get hurt in auto accidents relax relax relax
spin spin spin
airbags inflate.
my sunglasses fall off
we are upside down
everything has stopped
flurry of motion we try to get out realizing we are upside down I am stuck in my seatbelt gotta keep my shoes on my window shattered as we landed so I crawl out of seatbelt and out of window I want my purse OH MY GOD someone is yelling FIRE THE CAR IS ON FIRE WE HAVE TO GET MY BABIES OUT I get K and MQE gets C somehow and we rush to a safe place.
They get the fire out, people holding me down saying I am terrible bruised on my neck and need to stay still. I hear MQE say his back hurts his back hurts and that he wants to sleep. We are separated I have the children they look bloody but they are uninjured they are holding me down getting me a phone I need my purse someone runs to get my purse and finds the diaper bag NOT THAT ONE, IT'S ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE and someone finds it and gets it and I can call our friends in Memphis to tell them what happened and the EMT shows up and fire department and police making sure we are lucid. They slap a collar on my neck OUCH that hurts my skin feels so raw My babies are okay. Constant questions, were you wearing seatbelts were the children buckled in, of course I say, praising carseat installation clinics at the Hillsboro OR hospital. Praising Subaru for making a car that gave its life to keep us safe. Praising God for watching us.
Children must go in ambulance first Mommy is strapped to stretcher K is good C is crying of course, they have stuffed animals for them in the ambulance, he takes my blood pressure and asks if I am alive, because my bp is so low following such a major trauma. The kids are having fun and I chat with the EMT and thank him for being the hero that he is.
We get admitted to ER, not the kids but Mommy and Daddy and we arrive in separate ambulances and I don't know where MQE is and I am stuck strapped to the stretcher for what seemed like forever and I can't make any telephone calls and am trying to keep C from getting into everything in the room but my attempts are futile but the nurses are wonderful and come and help and bring the children popsicles and take them on ER tours and I have head and neck and jaw xrays and they all come back just fine but with a chest wall injury and lots of bumps bruises scratches burns. Word comes back that MQE has a broken vertebra in his back and is being wheeled off to CT scan and I am beside myself and God knows how we made it through the past few days waiting for MQE to be released from the hospital, I am not capable of carrying C and thus couldn't leave the hotel room by myself and F came from Memphis to help out on Sunday and I called Subaru and Safety First/Cosco to tell them that their products saved my family's lives and we were going to fly home but all flights had been cancelled so our friend and my brother-in-law flew in and drove us home, where we arrived safely at 2 in the morning.
Eyewitness reports said that we were cut off, and that we flipped three times before landing upside down. The car did not show hardly any evidence of roof damage--we could open the two rear doors with no problem at the towing yard on Sunday. We will be buying another Subaru--it proved its weight in gold, in life, to us.
The one who "cut us off", or caused me to have to swerve, fled the scene.
We are so lucky to be alive.
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I am sorry to hear about your accident. AND I am angry that the person who cut you off did not at least stop and help. I hope they catch the *&!*$.
ResponderEliminarWe also like Subaru... Good luck and thank goodness your guardian angels were there. Sounds like the Subaru was part of your guardian network.
By the grace of God and angels... we are glad to have you back. Give me a call when you can.
ResponderEliminarThank you, Cynthia. We are lucky--and blessed. I called Subaru and almost had the guy on the other end crying as I told him about the accident and how their car did exactly what it was supposed to do for us.
ResponderEliminarSheila, you said it. I don't know how else we got out of that without some sort of divine grace.
Oh how shocking ... I am sooo glad you and your family got out of that accident alive!
ResponderEliminarI was wondering where you were ...
Thanks for writing about it - it must've been quite harrowing going over it all again.
Such a vivid account. Makes me shudder to think ... But you were being looked after well and truly. Thank God.
Love and prayers and thoughts and blessings.
Oh, gosh, I don't know you, but this is so terrifying to me. I am glad you, your husband and babies are alive and well. I was in an accident at 6 months pregnant. A teenager ran a red light and broadsided me. It sent me into contractions, but they were able to stop them and by God's grace both baby and I were fine. Get well physically and emotionally.
ResponderEliminarmapiprincesa, what a story. I was on the edge of my seat while reading. So glad you are all alive, though hurt some. What a terrible crash. So awful the big car drove off. Regards.
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