[lit-ideas] Re: a personal plea (to atty types, mostly)
- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:49:04 -0400
Oh, Julie, this is awful. My sympathies. The good news is that you are both
alive.
Veronica
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Subject: [lit-ideas] a personal plea (to atty types, mostly)
Three weeks ago I had a bad car wreck. I was driving in the left hand lane of
a two-lane semi-highway, driving 50 in a 55 mph zone. I came over a small hill
and suddenly in front of me were three large rolls of carpet -- the log sized
rolls that you see standing against the walls in showrooms. They were
absolutely smack dab in the middle of the lane, all lying at angles,
kitty-corner. There was heavy fast-moving traffic in the lane to my right.
There was no room between the rolls of carpet and the concrete median on my
left. You know how in an accident on one level it seems to be in slow mo and
on another it happens in a split second. Somewhere in my mind I was thinking
whether it would be more dangerous to plow into the first roll of carpet or
swerve around and risk side-swiping cars in the right lane (the police later
told me if I had chosen to run into the carpets, my daughter & I would likely
have been thrown through the windshield). I slammed on the brakes and c
hose the swerve option. Managed to squeak around the first two rolls but
caught a corner of the third roll with my tire, propelling me into a concrete
median, which caused the car to skid along at a nice clip on its left
(driver's) side for a while, before turning onto its roof and skidding some
more. When it came to a stop, I was unconscious and hauled into an ambulance
with 4 broken ribs, torn neck ligaments, a gash that needed sutures, a totaled
car, and no idea where my 13 yr. old daughter who had been in the passenger
seat was. When they pulled me out of the car I saw her -- she had broken her
window out with the heels of her hands, remembering someone telling her they
were the strongest part of her hands, and crawled out, causing shards of glass
to be embedded in her hands, knees, and feet. By the way, for what I believe
is the first time since she outgrew an infant seat, she had by fluke forgotten
to put her seatbelt on. It's a total instinctive reflex in my kids
after their early years of training. The police & paramedic on site looking
at the car said if she had her seatbelt on, the caving in of the roof of the
car would have crushed her head into her neck and broken her neck and she most
likely would not be alive.
Now to my question. Local lawyers have been of no assistance. The police here
are .... well, never mind the adjectives. The police report should be
released in a couple days. They threw the carpet away, apparently didn't check
for tags. The driver who lost those rolls in the highway was either the most
oblivious person on the planet or totally negligent. There must be some way of
finding out who was transporting carpet on that part of that road on that date
at that time. But I don't know how. Anyone??? Someone didn't get carpet
they were expecting ....either at a retail store, or outlet, or a home or
office... Yes, we had full coverage on the car, including uninsured motorist
and hospitalization, but it still won't cover the med bills, and I've been
seriously disabled for 3 weeks. I'd sure like to hold someone responsible.
Julie Krueger
thoroughly frustrated by meds, pain, hospital bills, & lack of transportation
(insurance co's aren't exactly expedicious).
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