About 2 years ago it was a nice sunny day. It was a day to look forward to because my niece was in ballet and was doing swan lake that day which was a big thing. I had to pick my dad up and run him around to take care of some business but itd gotten so late that before i was able to drop him off at home it was time to pick my niece up from her rehearsal and take her to her actual performance. I was 33 weeks pregnant and exhausted out of my mind. I was driving along with my dad and a car that was in front of me stopped… I stopped and also the lady behind me. Well after looking in my rear view and seeing that the lady behind me stopped i put my focus back onto the car in front of me which just turned on the left turn signal…. All of a sudden i feel what seems to be 2 big punches to the back of my head. Im confused because its just me and my dad and also because everyone has been stopped. I then realize the car that was behind me isnt just behind me anymore… Its completly reared to my end. I start to panic i get out to try and put 2 and 2 together and realized that there was a 4th car. I also realize that the car that reared me had a woman driver in it who was also pregnant and big as a house. The people in the front of me are in an old buick but they are mad because they just brought the car and it has damage….mind you theres 2 pregnant people ready to pop and all they can think about is this old rusty car. Finally the lady gets out of her car as the community officers that witnessed the accident are checking to make sure everyone is ok. The woman gets out of her car still talking on the phone and she says …..ok i can see this is all my fault… Im so mad at this point because im literally 2 blocks away from my nieces school i now need to go to the e.r because i was wearing my seatbelt and when the crash happened the seatbelt had pulled really hard on my stomach and this lady has no care in the world but to finish her conversation and she started the 4 car pile up on her phone in the first place. We sit and wait on the ambulance which finally comes and takes me to the e.r… After 4 hours i was released from the hospital and was suffering from more than just a seatbelt stomach ache. I have missed my nieces performance and now im in pain and the only plus is my car is ok. After the accident i started suffering from severe back pain which seems to get worse by the day even today. I also started having panic attacks and had to be medicated… I also later found out that the woman behind me was also 33 weeks pregnant but chose not to get checked out. Hopefully her baby was ok because her car and the car that caused the accident were completley totaled.
My point is that when you are driving and texting or driving and talking on your phone you risk peoples lives. Im grateful im alive and i didnt have any kids with me but i would give almost anything to make this pain go away. So how many of you were in an accident? What happened? Who was at fault and do you suffer from any injuries?
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I was almost in accident. I was 15 or 16 years old and I was part of a mentoring type of thing she was texting and driving on the highway next to a semi truck. I was scared out of my mind. This woman could have killed us both. She didn't even care. It's like the text message she was sending was better then her life and mine. For that split second I vowed and still to this day to next text and drive. I even have an app on my phone that stop my phone calls and text messages when I'm driving. It's to dangerous to risk your life think twice don't text and drive.
I was in a car accident about 8 years ago. I was 17 years old. My friends and I decided to take a weekend trip to the mall to get some new shoes. We had to cross the state bridge to get to the closest mall. When we crossed the bridge we paid the toll and came to a stoplight. As we waited for the light to turn green we decided to crank up the tunes and roll the windows down for everyone to hear the music. The light turned green and my friend hit the gas. What we didn't know is that the green light we saw was for the left lane. It was the leading green light. Unbeknownst to us, my friend was sending a text to her boyfriend when she glanced up and thought she saw the correct green light for us to go. We t-boned a big diesel truck. Luckily everyone was okay, but the man driving the truck was furious! We had completely ruined his new truck. He started screaming at us and my friend just sat down in the road and started crying. My friends car was totaled and she ended up losing her license for a year and a half because she admitted she was texting at the time.
Ever since that happened, I ALWAYS put my phone in the backseat while I am driving. This way I don't have to worry about being distracted and causing an accident. I don't think I could live with myself if I ever hurt someone due to being a stupid person who thinking texting while driving is okay. It's not okay. Thank you for sharing your story! I am so glad you turned out okay and that your child was okay too!