Road Warrior Meets Its End . . .
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
Head-on collision was a glancing blow that managed to punch the front end in two feet or so. I saw headlamps just coming right at me at the crest of the hill in my lane.
The other driver was a 19 year-old girl who just panicked. She steered into my desperate swerve to the right shoulder then at the last instant tried to get back to her side of the road. I hit her at about 45 mph, the officer said she was likely doing 60-65 considering how far she travelled after impact. I travelled into the ditch then up an embankment against a fence. I remember exactly what I was thinking on my way to the fence.
"This is wrong."
I will upload the pictures I took immediately after the crash. The Road Warrior looks fatally wounded. I am surprised and grateful to find that I am still walking, with just a damn sore neck and some surface lacerations on my left leg and a swollen right ankle. The officer said that she did not fare so well and her car got torn up pretty good.
Quadratruckseite was kind enough to pick me up from the hospital, and I am posting from his computer before I attempt some sleep.
Not two minutes before impact, I was thinking "what a nice car." Quadratruckseite had just driven it and I was happy with its manners, its cozy quiet interior in the rain, and the sound of the engine as I had just caught 4th gear on this hill in the evening light on my way to Detroit MI.
I am very sad. This was a great great road car with a huge heart. I do not know what I am going to do just yet, but sleep. I am thousands of miles from anywhere.
Once again, I am left with no patience for idiots. Who passes just before the crest of a hill on a two lane road?
Colin
The other driver was a 19 year-old girl who just panicked. She steered into my desperate swerve to the right shoulder then at the last instant tried to get back to her side of the road. I hit her at about 45 mph, the officer said she was likely doing 60-65 considering how far she travelled after impact. I travelled into the ditch then up an embankment against a fence. I remember exactly what I was thinking on my way to the fence.
"This is wrong."
I will upload the pictures I took immediately after the crash. The Road Warrior looks fatally wounded. I am surprised and grateful to find that I am still walking, with just a damn sore neck and some surface lacerations on my left leg and a swollen right ankle. The officer said that she did not fare so well and her car got torn up pretty good.
Quadratruckseite was kind enough to pick me up from the hospital, and I am posting from his computer before I attempt some sleep.
Not two minutes before impact, I was thinking "what a nice car." Quadratruckseite had just driven it and I was happy with its manners, its cozy quiet interior in the rain, and the sound of the engine as I had just caught 4th gear on this hill in the evening light on my way to Detroit MI.
I am very sad. This was a great great road car with a huge heart. I do not know what I am going to do just yet, but sleep. I am thousands of miles from anywhere.
Once again, I am left with no patience for idiots. Who passes just before the crest of a hill on a two lane road?
Colin