I was in a car crash at the weekend. I’m trying to get some perspective but I’m struggling. I can’t believe we are expected to carry on with our normal lives…. We just walk away and continue….
Perspective would be appropriate as I feel like this terrible think happended. In the scale of things it didn’t but I still feel….
My brother had a new car; he hasn’t driven for a while as he lost his licence in a drink driving incident only 2 weeks after getting the licence. We were driving to my aunts to celebrate my grandmothers 89th birthday. I wasn’t sure where I was going as I haven’t visited often. He was following me…I stopped to turn right. I propably stopped to fairly unexpectedly but I didn’t slam on the brakes or anything. Neither did he. He didn’t break at all…slammed straight into the back of my at 40 miles an hour. My mum and son were in my car….the noise was horrific.
His son and our dad were in his car. Everybody had the correct seat belts; nobody was hurt. The cars are in a bad bad way.. His looks destroyed, it couldn’t be driven and the radiator leaked all over the floor. The back end of mine is hanging down and there is a crease in the floor of the boot. I love my car but it can be repaired.
The consequences for my brother are rather more serious. He bought his car last week for £4,000; proably slightly more than its worth. It may be written off. He’s unlikely to get enough money on the insurance to replace it. His insurance in future years is likely to be astronomical as legally its his ‘fault’.
He wasn’t very happy before this happended with his girlfriend leaving him, him being forced to live back at my parents for financial reasons, and only seeing his son at weekends. The car was like the something good…the begining of turning the corner…
But nobody was hurt; but nobody was hurt
