TurdBird
Well-Known Member
I can't even begin to describe how much I appreciate all of your concerns. I really do appreciate it. Thank you all.
As for the accident. I was on the side of the road with a disabled motorist. They were a very nice young family and we were all just talking until the tow truck arrived. I had my patrol car pulled in on a slight angle behind their car. I didn't realize until later on but about 2 minutes before the accident took place I explained to their son why you should never stand between 2 vehicles with traffic going by. Thank goodness the family walked further into the grass away from the cars right before the accident took place. I was walking back to my car to do some quick paperwork when the accident took place. I was in the process of doing exactly what I told the kid not to do and that's walk between the 2 cars to get to mine. I was pretty much at my passenger side headlight walking around the front of the car when I heard a quick screech of a tire and looked up. That's when I realized what's to come. A car lost control and took a quick angle towards mine. The woman was heading directly for my door, and right before she would have hit it, she managed to get the vehicle on a less of a head on angle. Basically instead of hitting my door at a 90 degree angle she hit it on a 45. The impact pushed my car basically right at me. Being where I was at, I had no where to go so I sort of leaned into my car as it was coming at me and was thrown over the hood of my car, into the windshield a little, than into the grass.
I was in a good daze there for a few. The first thing that came to mind was my other accident. The same motorists that I was helping were all untouched and immediately came over. I took some glass to the face during the whole process so you know that meant a lot of blood.
Other motorists saw it happen too so they all stopped. Someone called it in and it seemed like seconds before I started to hear sirens in the distance. Anytime I am on the side of the road I always think it is so cool how big ant piles can get and how mean they look. I hate ants so I asked one of the people to please make sure that I am not laying in one.
Soon enough everyone started to arrive. I'm sure Troopernflight can agree with me on this one, but anytime a fellow officer goes down it's amazing to see everyone that comes to help. It really is a good feeling. I was transported to one of our million local hospitals where they wanted to keep me over night. I was not about to do that because I hate hospitals so I eventually went home a couple of hours later.
I'm going to be off work for probably the next week or so just relaxing. Once again I really do appreciate each and every single one of your kind words.
As for the accident. I was on the side of the road with a disabled motorist. They were a very nice young family and we were all just talking until the tow truck arrived. I had my patrol car pulled in on a slight angle behind their car. I didn't realize until later on but about 2 minutes before the accident took place I explained to their son why you should never stand between 2 vehicles with traffic going by. Thank goodness the family walked further into the grass away from the cars right before the accident took place. I was walking back to my car to do some quick paperwork when the accident took place. I was in the process of doing exactly what I told the kid not to do and that's walk between the 2 cars to get to mine. I was pretty much at my passenger side headlight walking around the front of the car when I heard a quick screech of a tire and looked up. That's when I realized what's to come. A car lost control and took a quick angle towards mine. The woman was heading directly for my door, and right before she would have hit it, she managed to get the vehicle on a less of a head on angle. Basically instead of hitting my door at a 90 degree angle she hit it on a 45. The impact pushed my car basically right at me. Being where I was at, I had no where to go so I sort of leaned into my car as it was coming at me and was thrown over the hood of my car, into the windshield a little, than into the grass.
I was in a good daze there for a few. The first thing that came to mind was my other accident. The same motorists that I was helping were all untouched and immediately came over. I took some glass to the face during the whole process so you know that meant a lot of blood.
Other motorists saw it happen too so they all stopped. Someone called it in and it seemed like seconds before I started to hear sirens in the distance. Anytime I am on the side of the road I always think it is so cool how big ant piles can get and how mean they look. I hate ants so I asked one of the people to please make sure that I am not laying in one.
Soon enough everyone started to arrive. I'm sure Troopernflight can agree with me on this one, but anytime a fellow officer goes down it's amazing to see everyone that comes to help. It really is a good feeling. I was transported to one of our million local hospitals where they wanted to keep me over night. I was not about to do that because I hate hospitals so I eventually went home a couple of hours later.
I'm going to be off work for probably the next week or so just relaxing. Once again I really do appreciate each and every single one of your kind words.
