The Careless Driver

I was just cruising down interstate 95, trying to get home. I was weaving in and out along with the rest of traffic. Everyone goes way over the speed limit, so you don’t get stuck behind someone driving sooo slow. I was just going in and out minding my own business but I was still using my blinkers. At least I was that considerate.

Like I said I was just cruising down until this huge 18 passenger came down to the interstate. He merged without a blinker and super slow which is my biggest pet peeve ever!! You don’t merge on to a speedy interstate going 30 miles per hour and then take 5 minutes to reach the actual speed. You just don’t. That’s how accidents happen, and I thought I hope I just didn’t jinx myself.

Anyways, this passenger van comes on and cuts me off at 30 miles per hour. I tried to honk my horn to warn him but my horn was dead. My horn didn’t work because I use it like ten times a day. SO I was saying, I swerved over so he didn’t hit but another car was in my blind spot. Then I had to swerve back over. Next thing I knew I was spinning in circles. I was so dizzy I couldn’t tell what was happening. I was spinning and spinning and then it just stopped.

I saw black, I lost time. I woke to a firefighter calling out for me and trying to wake me up. Everything was a blur, I could only hear him, “Ma’am, are you okay? Can you breathe? You’ve been in an accident and we have to extricate you out. Ma’am?” Then it was quiet and dark again.

Next thing I knew was waking up to the extrication machine, pulling my SUV apart. I blacked out again. I woke up in the hospital. I was getting checked for everything and anything but I was still stuck on what happened and how it happened. I was never in an accident before.

A police officer came in my room and said “Ma’am you are lucky to be alive and that no one else in the accident was hurt, physically. You could be charged with reckless driving. Would you like to put a statement in?” I just stared at him and he was impatient with me. “Ma’am,” he said. Thank god the nurse came in and told him to leave because I was not mentally or emotionally stable yet. I was going to get charged with something else besides reckless driving, if that police man stayed.