Hi all here's the story for the day..
Really, what next...
So last week Mark is rushed to hospital on wednesday, on thursday he takes a turn.. hence time off work and me time off work to watch out for him without pay.
Now we did get a great weekend of
camping, company and 4wding, that is a positive...
Battery light comes on again, nothing but dramas with this new battery, Paj sounds like it is dying, isn't turning over quick and all interior dash lights extremely dim. Of course! have to buy a new battery on the week we both had to have time off work! Murphys Law!!!
Then tonight as I drive to a friends house I am on Tamborine Oxenford Rd at Upper Coomera, I have pulled off to the side of the road to double check the refedex.
With my headlights and
hazard lights on, and my head stuck in the refedex (and windows up and doors locked because I am on a dark street in an unknown area) I am minding my own business checking the streets when all of sudden I hear a CRASH and my vehicle is bouncing on the
suspension. I have no idea what has just happened, I thought 'lucky I have locked the doors cause someone is trying to get me' until through the corner of my eye I see a white car wedged into my 4wd on the front drivers side straight into where the wheel is.
Reality has hit that I have just been slammed by another car!
*first reaction* - hitting steering wheel yelling F#ck, F#uck, F#ck while my head is instantly thinking 'Mark oh my God, this isn't even my fault and he is going to go off his nut!'
*second reaction* I see a guy get out of the car, he hears me swearing and I hear him say 'I am so sorry I don't know what happened'
*third reaction* In an instant moment time is suspended and I recall back to when I rear ended a lady in the panel van (which was due to her carelessness), but none the less I instantly think to how I felt, how I shaked, how I was scared and how my heart was pounding.
*fourth reaction* snap back to reality and see the guy walking to my window and instantly knowing exactly how he is feeling, that this is not a time to rant and rave. Knowing exactly how I felt, I just had an overflow of compassion for this man and for what he is feeling.
*fifth reaction* have a look at how my steering wheel is turned, have another look at the position of his car in my wheel and think 'heck I have just spent another $1800.00 last week getting the rest of the front and back
suspension finished, new brakes etc, I have a car in my wheel, I cannot drive it, tow trucks, we only have this car, we can't be without a car.....
I get out of the car (with a cigarette of course!) and get my mind onto seeing if he is alright.
He was not injured at all, but as you would imagine severly shaken up. All I could do was comfort him, tell him look it is ok they are just cars, take a breath, just calm yourself down, it is all ok, I knew exactly what he was feeling and I was not going to make him feel any worse.
Vehicles saw the accident, no one stopped to help. Another vehicle driving up the road saw us on the road (and had to slow down because his car was half in the middle of the road) got out to check if all was ok. They pushed his car back so I could roll
mine backwards to seperate the cars and get his off to the side of the road.
I asked him, what had happened? He said ' I don't know, one minute I am driving and the next minute the motor stops, all lights go out, I have no brakes and no control of the power steering and I hit you. (He was travelling towards me but obviously on the other side of the road about 60-70km p/h) We tried to start his car, battery completely dead.
He is just in shock, couldn't apologise enough and bewildered as to what has just happened.(and scared because it is his wifes car, she has gone away for the weekend, 'I have never had an accident in my life and I nearly never drive the wifes car).
I just kept telling him it is ok, don't stress, I am not angry.
I walk back to my car and I am thinking, ' God out of the how many kilometres stretch of road this is Why, Why did I stop right here and get hit, why didn't I stop elsewhere. I haveenough going on without this too?'
Then instantly the light bulb glowed, I looked to my left and if my vehicle wasn't there to stop him he would've travelled the few metres off the side of the road, right through the fence that within a few feet of the fence was a house and a bedroom window with the light on.
Change of opinion....
Thankyou God that of how many kilometres stretch of road this is that if my vehicle was 4 metres forward or 2 metres backwards he would of went straight into the fence and through the bedroom window.
It is just a car, it could have been his life and the life of whoever was in that bedroom.
We exchanged details, I stayed with him until his son arrived, tried to comfort him in the fact of what I just wrote above and told him again to don't be sorry, just be thankful.
And never ever complain about 4wds being on our roads because
mine just saved your life!.
Damage to my toy.. (
well he did hit the side of the bullbar but no damage --- damn I could've got a new one ready for a winch!) front drivers side rim scratched up to bits, wheel flare over arch and down the side of the quarter panel half pulled away from panel and scrapped up, wheel alignment hugely thrown out (as you'd expect getting it at 60-70km per hour.) Don't yet know if any damaged done to any of the
suspension work that has just been done. The car is drivable but wants to consistantly drive to the left not straight.
His car?
Well being the size of something like a ford fiesta, driving head on into a solid 93 Pajero..lets just say you'll know who came off worst!
Cheers
Jo