Car Crash

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My mother was involved in a car crash today. It was a bad one. One person died, 8 people inured, and my mother (her car being the last one hit) survived without too much injury, but the back of her nissan rogue was damaged. Left side dented, glass broken, and the tail light nearly damaged.

I'm just thankful she's still with us. I don't what I'd do nor what any of us'd do if she got hurt. My dad would drink more out of worry or sorrow, but that's all I can think of. I feel sorry for anyone else involved in the crash.

If you live in the Hagerstown area, you might have either seen it or you might catch it on the news.

I'm glad your mother came out relatively unscathed.

Not that she was "lucky," really. But, in a sense, she was fortunate to only receive the minor impact.

Sorry to hear that. My mother was permanently disabled in a car accident when I was in High School. Not only have I seen the unimaginable suffering but the financial settlement she got was nothing short of laughable: probably less than 1% of what she should have gotten. My parents have been in a combined 17 car accidents (all the other person's fault, most rear ends, none in the past 7 years) and I have only been in 2 with both being in the passenger seat so I am all too familiar with "the call".

She was lucky, some others also have amazing luck:

I was commuting via buss earlier in life about 10 years ago and one January morning, the buss was hit by a woman in a car (in a bend, the car went over the middleline). I saw the car go by sideways(!) and i thought there was no way she'd survive. All onboard were relatively undamaged but one woman fell and had a cut on her skull (me and the bussdriver was the only ones using a seat belt).

I helped the woman up, then the passengers broke up the roof emergency hatch and went out. (The bus had flipped over to the side when it went off the road, fortunately it had slowed down almost to a standstill). I looked at the car, it looked like it had been pulled apart, a chopper came by from Uppsala hospital and against all odds, she pulled through and was sentenced because she was on medication at the time which made her fall asleep, fortunately the road has now been replaced by a larger express way that is much safer.