I almost died, so naturally I blog about it

Mom, Chloe, and I were in the car, heading to drop me off at my first day of work at CMOG. We were driving for only five minutes, and we got to the nasty curve where the Morse’s house is. All of a sudden the car slipped, and mom screamed. For a good fifteen seconds the car was jerking back and forth as mom was trying to counter-steer, and I saw the ditch getting closer on my side. I knew mom wasn’t going to get the car straight in time, and we were spinning so fast, and I was like “Oh, shit, I’m about to die. I’m really, seriously going to die.” The wheels came to the side of the ditch on my side, the passenger side, and I saw us going down quick. The car tipped and fell completely upside down and the passenger side slammed hard into the ditch. I hit my head on my window, and I opened my eyes a few seconds later. I could see Mom – both of us were hanging upside down. Then I could hear Chloe sobbing in the back seat, and both mom and I started screaming, “CHLOE, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? CHLOE! IS ANYTHING BROKEN?” Nothing was broken, but I could see some of her and I could tell that she was hanging upside down and the seat belt was practically squeezing her to death. She told us that she couldn’t unbuckle it.

The windshield and my window had shattered and there was glass everywhere. Mom unbuckled her seat belt and fell to the ground, tried to get Chloe’s unbuckled but it was stuck, told me to stay, and tried to open my door to climb out but it was too heavy. At that time, Sean, who lives in the house next to where we crashed, came running out and mom told him to call 911. Mom told me she couldn’t get out, so I unbuckled my seat belt, fell to the ground, and tried to climb up. She tried to hold the door open while I climbed out. At that time, a man pulled over to help us. I asked him for a knife, and in retrospect it’s quite funny that man just pulled a knife out of his pocket…how lucky is that? Mom cut Chloe out, climbed out, and pulled Chloe out of the car.

The only damage done to us was some cuts, bruises, back/neck pain from hanging upside down and the impact, and some head pain on my part, but the car was completely destroyed. The police and ambulance came, and Chloe just could not stop sobbing. I felt so sorry for her. We sat in the police car and answered some questions for about an hour, and then she took us home. Once everything/everybody was ok, I didn’t feel guilty about feeling really, really horrible about how both of my iPods, which cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars, were both destroyed in the crash. Way to make this experience seven billion times suckier. The lady told us that it’s miraculous none of us were hurt worse or dead. We are truly, truly blessed – if circumstances were even a tiny bit different – if one of us wasn’t wearing a seat belt or if Brandon was in the car with us too – then things could have been drastically different. One of us could have died. I’m so glad my family and I are alive.

I finally have an “I almost died!” story.
PS: Lolz. I thought it wasn’t that bad, but I just realized that I have a bump bigger than a golf ball on the side of my head. I don’t know how I didn’t realize that. Well, it hurts like whoa.

~ by Lindsey on January 18, 2009.