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(, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Car Crash!
A couple of weeks ago my missus was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident.

She was driving between jobs (she's a carer for people with dementia in the the community). As she pulled away from a green light another bloke ran a red light and t-boned her on the drivers side. He hit her at about 60kph. Her side airbag deployed and when she could move she (after calling for help and being un-heard) she managed to crawl out of the passenger side door and walk away.
2 plain-clothes cops had been directly behind the other guy and the the intersection where it happened was across the road from the local copshop.

I got a phone call at about 0800 from a strange woman (my wife was too distressed to even dial me) telling me my missus had been involved in a car accident (you can imagine where my mind went there!) but she put my sobbing missus on. I found out where she was, called the insurance and what-not and off my daughter and I went.
The missus refused to ride in the same ambo as the other guy (he got a nasty donk to the noggin), so I took her to hospital. Several hours later and an xray they released her with no breaks or bleeding. She has been receiving physiotherapy for an injury to her right hip. EDIT: She's currently back at work doing light duties.

The insurance company stumped up the agreed value 3 days later, after the assessor had rung me telling me he was amazed anyone walked out of that alive and within another week we had a new (used) car. EDIT: We are so far about AUD$6000 out of pocket.
In the mean time whilst we were a 1 car family (1st world problems, right?) I had rows with my work for leaving site for 20 min. to go and drop my daughter off at school once.
The pics of the wreck are here (1,2) if anyone's interested.

I'm sure many of us here have had to deal with tragedy related to car accidents, this suggestion is in no way meant to trivialise such horrible situations.
I'm merely telling my (and my wife's) story and asking any others out there to give us yours - whether the outcomes were good or bad.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 6:44, 12 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
tl;dr

(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 7:29, Reply)
Woman married to fat bore tries to end it all.
His employers think so little of him he can’t even be away for 20 mins without getting told off.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 7:43, Reply)
Rory Mk. 2?
You missed the bit about how I apparently have to clean up a lot of shit.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 8:28, Reply)
So what you're saying is
You don't *have* to do it, but you do?
(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 15:27, Reply)
Buy a dictionary.

(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 8:26, Reply)
i can't imagine that a week of 'tell us about horrific car accidents you've had' will have many lols

(, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 20:31, Reply)
True, true.

(, Tue 27 Nov 2012, 10:11, Reply)
We might be able to get some more icons out of it though.

(, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 18:12, Reply)
*wrongLOL*

(, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 18:17, Reply)

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