[Shotimes] SHO is DEAD

[shewitt@hypercon.net]

Glad to hear you are OK.  Good thing you were an attentive 
driver - I would like to think I would see that coming too 
if I were in your position.  Get well soon!

Scot H

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:27:10 -0500
  "Grant" <shogrant1@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>Well ,while doing a part time job today I had me a little 
>accident. I was
>sitting on a IH-10 East doing construction safety for a 
>local road
>construction / repaving company, it was 7pm when we 
>started, the SHO got
>killed at 7-29pm, a driver that had clear view of my car 
>for about 3/4 of a
>mile with all the emergency lights going said she never 
>saw my car unitl she
>was right up on me , she hit her barkes after she had hit 
>me, which meant at
>that time her speed was estimated at approx 100 mph, but 
>I say prob 85-90 at
>least. I was sitting still with the car in drive , left 
>foor on brake and
>right foot on the gas and an exit planned for any mishap 
>that might occur,
>well at 150 yds or so I saw that she wasnt going to 
>change lanes or hit her
>brakes because the nose of her car never dipped down 
>indicating she was
>braking. I nailed the throttle and was doing about 15-20 
>when I got hit. So
>I braced myself and pushed my back into the seat and 
>leaned my head back and
>held it tight to the head rest knowing that most damage 
>is caused by the
>second movement foward and the brian impacting the back 
>of my skull. The
>skid marks that the other car left were only about 10-15 
>ft. long that tells
>me she hit the brakes at the time of impact, my skid 
>marks taking off at WOT
>were almost that long.  (LOL) and then being spun around 
>for about 100 ft.
>My first reaction was to get out of my car and check the 
>other driver, but
>the back and neck said no, you aint going anywhere, so I 
>didnt, I just
>waited for EMS to get to me to get me out. The back seat 
>is not there
>anymore its just the front drivers seat, passenger seat 
>went almost into the
>front dash while my seat broke and was laying down The 
>roof is creased up
>about 6-8 inched all the way across, like I said the car 
>looks like it has
>been put in the compactor and crushed until  the rear 
>bumper cover met the
>back of the front seats. Well don't know if another SHO 
>is in my future
>although this crash makes me a firm believer that this is 
>one of the safest
>cars on the road , the EMS crew and fire dept. said from 
>whats left of my
>car I must have had the hand of God behind me cause I 
>should have been more
>seriously hurt or even died. I pulled my self out of the 
>passenger side door
>and onto the back board so I could be transported. When I 
>got to the
>hospital all the attending nurses and Dr's. were asking 
>me for 6 numbers
>between 1- 56  ( our lotto game card numbers) , saying it 
>tradition that all
>drivers who survive accidents like mine that souldnt have 
>are very lucky and
>they want a little of that luck and play the numbers I 
>gave them. So as for
>me I'm in a Apsen Collar for the next 2 weeks, with 
>nothing
>broke,dislocated, just gonna feel the aches and pains of 
>whiplash in the
>next few days. I might have some good parts for sale 
>after I see what the
>insurance is gonna do so stay tuned.
>
>
>
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