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Originally Posted by kwren
The same thing happened to me. A few years back I was in a little yellow ford courier pickup driving south in Tacoma with my headlights on and an idiot approaching me in a big dodge truck without warning turned and hit me head on. Totaled my picup of course. I was already in the intersection when he turned. His license was suspended for drunk driving and no insurance of course. Yellow pickup and headlights on!
I am 78 years old and still drive 50,000 miles a year. We never know who we will have to dodge every time we get on the road, so think early give your self as much leverage as possible. I am sure nothing you could have done would have changed the outcome... Like my little courier pickup 
I call it "living room" Know where they all are all the time and drive lighted and live, even in your own back yard!! 
Again, so sorry but at least you will be ok!
Keith 
P.S, Oh, and I pray a lot. Sounds like your guardian angel was with you! Take care |
Thank you for sharing that with me Keith. I went to bed after posting last night, and had a lot of trouble getting to sleep, odd for me.
My mind had gone to the "What if she was drunk/impaired?" with possible "Property Damage and Pain and Suffering lawsuit" implications, and this also was odd for me. I hate lawyers and litigation, and money grubbing/ambulance chasing photogs, like the jackass that showed up at the scene and refused to talk to my wife when she approached him. This was after my ambulance had left the scene, and the fireman there said he showed up at all the "Big" wrecks.
I was already thinking that I need a copy of the completed accident report for my scrapbook, but now am thinking about seeing a Prop damage specialist with the results, as I know for a certainty this was ENTIRELY the other driver's fault. A little history might be in order here. I spent 18 years of my 36 year career with Pacific Telephone/PacBell/SBC/AT&T as a Field Supervisor, teaching and regularly reviewing Defensive Driving with my team of van and ladder-truck driving Field Technicians as part of our required Safety Program. So these techniques are a part of my daily life, and I almost sub-consciously drive with a "Big Picture" view, mentally cursing all the "Me First" and "Get Outta My Way" drivers that increasingly clog our hiways today. I get in the correct lane early (DOH!), always signal my intentions clearly, and sometimes seem to move backwards in traffic as I attempt to "Space Cushion drive" and always leave myself an "out". So in all my mental recreations of this accident I look for something else I might have done to avoid the seemingly inevitable. I've finally come to the conclusion the only way I could have avoided the accident was by not being there at that instant in time.
Apologies to all reading this for the long post!! But bottom line is, having never been involved in a serious accident such as this I had no sense of the pain and suffering, both physical and emotional, one goes through!! I realized, all machismo aside, that this is what I'm going through, and am thinking that someone should be made to pay for it!! I know it sucks, but I believe I'll discuss this with the wife, and a couple of close friends in the insurance business, and pursue it with the appropriate help. My BABY is DEAD, and I HURT, and will hurt for some time yet, and although the Christian thing to do would be to accept it as God's will, I won't settle for that this time!!! It's my turn to be the a$$hole. Going to start a diary of my day to day progress, and my emotional state from day zero today.
Glenn