*** OFFICIAL DECEMBRO TO REMEMBRETTE LC THREAD ***
kyleb.
12-17-2012
, 12:37 PM
12-17-2012
, 12:57 PM
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, 12:58 PM
12-17-2012
, 01:04 PM
12-17-2012
, 01:19 PM
12-17-2012
, 01:33 PM
12-17-2012
, 01:50 PM
Thanks everyone!
Umm, I may or may not be slightly injured. But I don't think it can be that serious given that I'm walking around fine and nothing feels specifically bad. That being said, my shoulder/neck, right lower back, and left knee areas are all ginger and sore. Buuuut, they were all sore yesterday after playing some pickup basketball so I mean, who knows.
I plan to do some recumbent bike cardio today to sort of test things out and keep the blood pumping.
As for as suing, not sure I can sue anyone since I was the one who spun out of control.
I had already driven to the office (15-20 min drive) and there was no ice or issues at all. Everyone was driving 65mph in a 55mph freeway.
I picked up a laptop at work that I needed for the presentation at a client's office and then headed out, back on the same freeway I had just been on. So I cruised along at 55-65 mph or whatever and then was coming up to a different freeway I needed to turn on (near where I live actually).
For whatever reason there was about a .25-.5 mile stretch that was icy. It was not snowing but whisps of snow were being blown from the shoulder across the road. This doesn't necessarily mean there is ice btw. And since it's a major freeway and not too far under freezing atm, cars weren't really slowing down too much. I got into the turn lane for the other freeway and was on a bridge going over that freeway at about 50mph when I hit some ice and started fishtailing. That bridge is newly built and the tow truck driver was saying that makes it more likely for their to be ice and it to be slippery but I didn't think about that at the time.
I don't have antilock brakes but tried to pump them b/c I still needed to slow down a bunch to make the turn....and then completely lost control. I veered into traffic. Depending on exactly where my car was this probably was still safer since if I was still on the bridge part going into the guard rail could have potentially ended in me going off the bridge (or maybe not? you don't hear about that happening much so maybe it couldn't happen).
But I ended up almost completely turned around, kind of angled a bit facing the wrong way and collided with a pickup truck. My airbags deployed, I was yelling **** and it was super surreal. My car spined a bit more into the guard rail on the shoulder and then stopped.
As you can see my car is beyond repair. The truck was 90% intact but the front area was for sure messed up - he seemed very okay in terms of injuries and mentally. I was shaking and definitely freaked out.
Anyway, tl;dr but I gave cliffs above so that should be okay,
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The silver lining is new car time I suppose. I guess fairly quickly....it seems like something I'd normally want to think about for months, lol.
I plan to do some recumbent bike cardio today to sort of test things out and keep the blood pumping.
As for as suing, not sure I can sue anyone since I was the one who spun out of control.
I had already driven to the office (15-20 min drive) and there was no ice or issues at all. Everyone was driving 65mph in a 55mph freeway.
I picked up a laptop at work that I needed for the presentation at a client's office and then headed out, back on the same freeway I had just been on. So I cruised along at 55-65 mph or whatever and then was coming up to a different freeway I needed to turn on (near where I live actually).
For whatever reason there was about a .25-.5 mile stretch that was icy. It was not snowing but whisps of snow were being blown from the shoulder across the road. This doesn't necessarily mean there is ice btw. And since it's a major freeway and not too far under freezing atm, cars weren't really slowing down too much. I got into the turn lane for the other freeway and was on a bridge going over that freeway at about 50mph when I hit some ice and started fishtailing. That bridge is newly built and the tow truck driver was saying that makes it more likely for their to be ice and it to be slippery but I didn't think about that at the time.
I don't have antilock brakes but tried to pump them b/c I still needed to slow down a bunch to make the turn....and then completely lost control. I veered into traffic. Depending on exactly where my car was this probably was still safer since if I was still on the bridge part going into the guard rail could have potentially ended in me going off the bridge (or maybe not? you don't hear about that happening much so maybe it couldn't happen).
But I ended up almost completely turned around, kind of angled a bit facing the wrong way and collided with a pickup truck. My airbags deployed, I was yelling **** and it was super surreal. My car spined a bit more into the guard rail on the shoulder and then stopped.
As you can see my car is beyond repair. The truck was 90% intact but the front area was for sure messed up - he seemed very okay in terms of injuries and mentally. I was shaking and definitely freaked out.
Anyway, tl;dr but I gave cliffs above so that should be okay,
.The silver lining is new car time I suppose. I guess fairly quickly....it seems like something I'd normally want to think about for months, lol.
12-17-2012
, 01:51 PM
12-17-2012
, 01:56 PM
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, 02:04 PM
