I still cannot take it in
I keep walking out of the house and expecting to see her there
I had slowed to stationary on a 50 mph road because I could see 3 or 4 sets of brake lights up ahead.
I'd even looked in the rear view and a silly thought crossed my mind that as it was a fast bit of road, I wondered if the cars coming up behind me would realise everyone had stopped, should I put my hazards on to warn them? Then I chided myself for thinking something so silly, hazards are for motorways doh.. I turned my attention to the cars in front, wondering what the hold up was when all I can remember was a huge bang and the 406 appeared to leap in the air and hit the van in front, I honestly thought at the angle the car was at that I was going to roll.
After a couple of minutes of trying to work out who I was, what had happened etc I started her up (she drove still) and put her gently on the verge. A woman from the car behind came rushing up saying she was sorry, she didn't know what happened etc.
I got out to inspect the 406, there didn't seem to be much of a boot left and from the state of her VW beetle it was pretty obvious she'd hit me at about 50mph whilst I was stationary.
I sat back in the car to avoid getting wet, my head was completely gone trying to take it all in and I had barely got the vehicle registrations on paper, hadn't even got names when a paramedic turned up. He looked me over and prodded the back of my neck and asked if it hurt.
I had no intention of submitting a whiplash claim and as he prodded the sides of my neck said no, he then prodded the back of my neck where the bones are and I think there's a nerve running down it as it hurt and I explained it did hurt but he's just caught me funny on that bone etc.
No, no he said, potential fracture, you're not going anywhere and proceeded to hold my head in one fixed position.
I got ratty cos the car needed emptying and I wanted to do that before breakdown came to tow her away and he got shitty back, demanding to know if I was refusing treatment, I got a bit upset and said no, I wasn't but tried to explain he'd just caught a nerve in my neck and he countered by saying all the other people he'd checked hadn't had that pain, had they?
So I admitted defeat on the condition that I could ring my mum to let her know they were on about hospitalising me.
He let me use the phone once and I rang her, then took the phone off me, I kept asking for my phone back I was starting to get wound up again.
The paramedic got a copper to sit in the back of the car to support my head and went off for 15 minutes. When he came back I asked him to shut the driver's door as I was freezing and he said no cos he had to support my neck, I said "Well sit in the passenger's seat" and he said he couldn't because none of the airbags had been deployed and therefore they could potentially go off. So I suggested he turn the airbag off with the key... doh some people are thick. As he sat down in the passenger seat I debated on telling him about the side impacts bags still intact in the passenger and driver seats, then thought nah....
He then turnd to me and said "You're aware that the car's probably a write off, aren't you?"
I said yes.
He said "Great, well you won't mind if we turn it into a convertible then, will you?"
That was when I leapt out of the driver's seat, knocking the coppers and paramedic flying like skittles, I didn't give a toss if I did have a broken neck, they weren't doing that to my damn car
Once I'd shoved them out of my way and got out of the car, they gave up the idea of cutting the roof off
The same stupid paramedic then grabbed my head again, telling me off and saying how I could have paralysed myself by doing that and I was forced to stand in the middle of the road with some doofus supporting my head until the ambulance arrived.
My little sister turned up at that point and freaked completely and I was trying to tell her I was ok but she went to bits so I just told her to clear the car out for me and I'd see her later.
Then they strapped me down by my head onto a stretcher, Bernard matthews could have employed them for trussing turkeys I was that bound up.
I finally got my phone back and they ran a load of tests in the ambulance then finally I managed to call Mark and make him aware of what had gone on.
The ambulance got me to hospital and they x rayed me and as I'd already told that paramedic, there was no break to my neck and none to my back, just soft tissue damage.
I went yesterday to clear the car out and took piccys to show you all how bad the crash was, I noticed immediately that the spare tyre appears to have taken the brunt of the impact and even deflected some of the force and I would think that's how the actual car interior escaped damage IMHO.
I'm completely gutted, I don't want a 407 but I have to have something under 5 years old but I don't think they will give me peanuts for the 406.
I only wish I could repair her
The woman who caused the crash sent me a bouquet of flowers yesterday, to someone else it probably would have been a nice gesture but all I could think of was "How can a poxy bunch of flowers bring my car back?"
I've had loads of people say "At least you're ok, the car is replaceable"
ARE YOU KIDDING? What planet are these people on? I ought to say to them right, go get me a black 406 exec, it has to be black leather. Oh and it has to be a diesel, but more importantly, it's got to be under FIVE years old.
Idiots.
