Yesterday afternoon I was in a car accident, but luckily there were no physical injuries, except for the soar neck – known as the whiplash syndrome. The accident happened in the rush hour traffic next to a bus stop. A bus had just left the stop and in their usual reckless behaviour forced it’s way back into traffic. The two cars ahead of us had to make a hard stop to avoid the bus and each other. My brother, which was driving the car I was in, just barely made it to a halt without hitting the car in front, but he did make it stop.
Unfortunately, the driver behind us payed more attention to the bus that the car directly in front of him, and hence smashed into us and my brother’s car and we were pushed into the car in front of us. I seriously don’t think the guy behind us pushed the brakes before he hit us. I guess safety distance is not in his dictionary.
My brother’s car got pretty smashed up at the rear and some at the front as well. He hasn’t looked to much at it yet, but he expects a lot of damage underneath the car. This is so unfortunate and sad. My brother have inherited the car from our father who passed away one and a half year ago. It’s a nice car and my brother is always afraid if something should happend to it, so he takes good care of it. These past months he spent a great deal of time fixing the car with lots of new parts, a new paint job, and with many custom parts and now all for nothing. Just because some jerk don’t know how to drive. It makes you wanna cry. 😥
Eventhough it was a relatively low speed crash, it was all that more shocking to us. We though we had made it to a halt without hitting the car infront, and then boom. We were all shaking for the next couple of hours and my brother’s girlfriend was a mess. Although none of us have any physical injuries, it will definitely leave a scar on the soul.
Now I really only hope the process with the insurance company is without any trouble. That would make healing the soul somewhat less painful.