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Nov. 23rd, 2004 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizillaAround 4:30 this morning I woke from convoluted dreams, to the sound of someone pounding on our front door. I pulled on my bathrobe and went downstairs to see what was happening. There was a sheriff deputy on the front porch. I opened the door and he asked if the Honda Civic belonged to us, because someone had hit it.
I went back upstairs and woke M, and we both went outside. A 20-ish girl in a small car had plowed into M's car, crushing the rear quarter panel, pushing his car into the neighbor's yard and pinning it against a tree.
The girl was very distraught. She kept sobbing about how sorry she was, so sorry, so sorry. She had fallen asleep at the wheel, on her way home from work. She had only very minor injuries, probably a black eye. She lives with her parents at the other end of the street, and after the accident she had gotten out of her car and run home to get her parents to help her. Her dad was in dad mode, lecturing the girl about how one doesn't just run off from the scene of the accident, she should have stayed with the cars. The mother and I were telling her "The important thing is that you're OK, cars can be replaced." The girl kept looking at the tree M's car was pinned against, and saying she was terrified because if his car hadn't been there she'd have hit that tree straight on, and she would have died, she knew she'd have died. (Personally I think if M's car hadn't been there she would have hit that tree and knocked it over. These old crabapple trees are very fragile. M's car may have saved the life of the tree.)
Kim from across the street came out and brought the girl an ice pack for her face. Kim's daughter had been awakened by the sound of the crash, and Kim had been the one to call the police when she looked out and saw the wrecked cars and no people. The police had two tow trucks there in short order, and the cars were taken away. M just had time to get his things out of his car. The tow truck drivers damaged the cars a lot more while disentangling them, but I suppose they're both going to be totaled so it hardly matters.
I love down comforters. When I came back to bed after being up for a half an hour, the bed was still warm.
I went back upstairs and woke M, and we both went outside. A 20-ish girl in a small car had plowed into M's car, crushing the rear quarter panel, pushing his car into the neighbor's yard and pinning it against a tree.
The girl was very distraught. She kept sobbing about how sorry she was, so sorry, so sorry. She had fallen asleep at the wheel, on her way home from work. She had only very minor injuries, probably a black eye. She lives with her parents at the other end of the street, and after the accident she had gotten out of her car and run home to get her parents to help her. Her dad was in dad mode, lecturing the girl about how one doesn't just run off from the scene of the accident, she should have stayed with the cars. The mother and I were telling her "The important thing is that you're OK, cars can be replaced." The girl kept looking at the tree M's car was pinned against, and saying she was terrified because if his car hadn't been there she'd have hit that tree straight on, and she would have died, she knew she'd have died. (Personally I think if M's car hadn't been there she would have hit that tree and knocked it over. These old crabapple trees are very fragile. M's car may have saved the life of the tree.)
Kim from across the street came out and brought the girl an ice pack for her face. Kim's daughter had been awakened by the sound of the crash, and Kim had been the one to call the police when she looked out and saw the wrecked cars and no people. The police had two tow trucks there in short order, and the cars were taken away. M just had time to get his things out of his car. The tow truck drivers damaged the cars a lot more while disentangling them, but I suppose they're both going to be totaled so it hardly matters.
I love down comforters. When I came back to bed after being up for a half an hour, the bed was still warm.
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Date: 2004-11-23 04:06 pm (UTC)Here's hoping interim transportation isn't a problem, and that all the insurance-y stuff works out well.
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Date: 2004-11-23 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-23 05:31 pm (UTC)To paraphrase a friend, "Cars can be replaced, people can't." (Ok, replace car with bike and you know who I'm talking about. )
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Date: 2004-11-24 08:25 pm (UTC)