Depressing Family News

[UncleMidriff]

Hopefully, this isn't too far off-topic, but today has been an especially crappy day, and I just need to talk about it.

A close relative of mine was involved in a serious accident today. She is ok... she had to have stitches, and, from what I've heard, is pretty severely bruised everywhere, but she is ok. The exceedingly bad part is one of the passengers from one of the other cars involved in the accident, a young person, was injured pretty badly. We're all hoping, praying, doing everything that a person completely powerless to change the situation can do, that this person pulls through.

It's just so awful. I know this relative. She's a good person. And from my experience, she's an exceptional driver as well. She's certainly not the type to have been putting on her make-up, reading a newspaper, eating a steak, and texting her friends while driving. She wasn't speeding. She just made a mistake.

This just ****ing sucks so hard.

I've had my fair share of near misses while driving, as I'm sure most people who drive on a regular basis do. I was once driving on a country road late at night. It was raining, the road was unfamiliar, and I was doing my damnedest to be careful. Even at that, an upcoming curve in the road was sharper than I realized, and there I was, with three passengers in the car, skidding off the road, over correcting, skidding off the other side of the road, and then finally coming to a stop. It was pure luck that there was no oncoming traffic at that moment, that no telephone poles happened to be in the path of the skid. The car, myself, and all my passengers were fine, but it so very easily could have ended in tragedy.

I can barely bring myself to think about what will happen if this injured person doesn't make it. I don't know what the law prescribes for situations like this, but that's the least of our worries. If this person doesn't pull through...God...I can't imagine the emotional turmoil of losing a loved one like that...nor can I imagine the emotional turmoil of contributing to someone losing a loved one like that.


*sigh*

 

[Spider]

Really sorry to hear about this Uncle, my thoughts are with you and I hope that the other person pulls through.

 

[Lady Python]

So sorry to hear about this Uncle Midriff I hope everyone involved recover very soon.

 

[leaford]

My heart goes out to you and your family, and to theirs.

 

[Oliver]

Sorry to hear about the accident Uncle M, and I do hope things turn out as well as they can.

Take care, and if you need to talk any more about it here please do, I for one will be happy to listen, as I'm sure others will too.

 

[UncleMidriff]

An update:

My relative flew back home today (she was in another state when this happened). Indeed, she is pretty banged up. Glad to be alive though.

As for the other person who was injured, the latest I've heard is that the police told my relative that everyone was alright. I'm guessing that if that weren't true, or at least very likely to end up being true, they wouldn't have let my relative leave the hospital and fly out of state. Still though, I'll start feeling better the further away from this event we get without receiving any bad phone calls.

The story is that traffic was backed up for whatever reason, and my relative didn't realize that everyone had come to a full stop until she crested a hill and was faced with a line of stationary cars, at which point it was too late to stop in time, even though she wasn't speeding. Still, any time you hit another car from behind, it's automatically your fault, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. But at least it is as I suspected; she wasn't doing anything ......ed, it was just a bad situation where she didn't react quickly enough.

*sigh of (semi-)relief*

Thanks for listening.

 

[dnakr]

Sorry to hear about the accident, but glad to hear that your cousin is doing well. Praying you get no bad phone calls.