I just want to thank God that I'm alive & that I walked out of this accident without a scratch. It seems so surreal how fast everything can change, I've taken a lot in from this experience & I hope to share with you what I learned so that you don't find yourself in a situation like I was in.
It happened on Saturday night as I was coming back from my parent's house & I was on my way to my place to get ready to go out for my friend Mayra's birthday dinner. I was on the far right lane getting ready to exit the Tollway, when all of a sudden this Ford truck got over from the fast lane, to the middle lane & I'm right next to him, probably on his blind spot & I saw that he was about to get over, so I honked & I had to pump my breaks because if I hadn't, he would've side swapped my car against his bed trailer. I was so angry I honked at him for like 2 or 3 seconds, & he break checked me.. by this time the exit ramp was there & I was following too close to him & when I saw his break lights, I swerved to the right where the exit ramp is & all of a sudden my car fish tailed ... left, right, left & I saw the huge concrete wall on the right & I knew I was going to hit it. By this point, I wanted to be stopped so that way I wouldn't go into a full spin & probably merge back into the highway & do more damage, so I saw my car go to the right & I took my hands off the wheel & it hit, BAM! I saw the guy in his truck on the exit lane too because he was going to exit, so he must've seen that I hit the wall, & he got back on the tollway & ran. I didn't even have a chance to get his plates, it all happened super fast.
My side air bags deployed, my windshield cracked from the far right, & at least I could drive away from the freeway but I knew there was some damage to my tire because it was wobbly & I could hear it screeching. I got back on the tollway to follow the guy, but he took off really fast & I knew I couldn't drive at a high speed because of my tire, so I took the next exit & I couldn't see anything on the right because my airbags were just hanging there so I blindly took a right at the light, & thankfully there were no cars on the service road & I got back to my apartments a minute after I exited.
I called my insurance & told them what happened. I was so calm throughout it all, it's so weird. Normally, I would've been crying & been hysterical but I was just thankful that I was okay. When I got out of my car & looked at the damage I was amazed that it wasn't as extensive as I thought it was gonna be. I think I was going about 65 mph when I hit that wall so it was a miracle that my car only had the damage on the right bumper & the rim was ripped. My car is a trooper! if I would've had a Ford Focus or something, I'm sure it would've been more wrecked.
Here are some pics I took the morning after:
I was surprised that my front headlight didn't even shatter!
So what I learned from this is that you cannot control what people do, especially not on the roads.. but what you can control is yourself & your vehicle because you are accountable if something goes wrong, especially if you end up losing your life because of it. It made me realize that I need to be more patient & be aware of any possibilities where things could go wrong & know the right approach I need to take from there & not act on my emotions. IT'S NOT WORTH IT! especially since my birthday is coming up & now I have to pay my deductible to get my poor little car fixed. This is not only a hard lesson learned, but an expensive one for sure. Not to get all spiritual, but I think the main reason why I was so calm throughout this whole ordeal when it happened, was cuz I felt like God, or an angel, was protecting me.
I talked with my insurance people today & they said that I was not at fault.. this really made me feel better because at least my premium is not going to be substantially high because of this.
What's really interesting is how I renew my lease next month & I got a special so all I pay is half of November's rent, which means that I have the extra money that I would've used for shopping, drinking, what have you, but now I can use that to fix my car.
Here's my car on its way to the shop
I don't know when I'll get it back.. I'm sure I'll find out tomorrow or the day after. At least my boss is letting me work from home this week so I'm thankful for that too.
I have another post to post, lots of pics from Mayra's birthday party so stay tuned for that too.
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Vamp Brittany, me as the french maid & Judy as a sexy cop at many of the house parties we crashed on Halloween.
