[Shotimes] SHO is DEAD

[Jon Heese]

Grant,

Sorry to hear about your injury and the demise of your SHO, thankfully
you weren't more seriously hurt.  Out of curiosity, what was the woman
driving?  Do you know how she and her car fared? Doubtless her car was
totalled too, but was she hurt?

 - Jon

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 05:27, Grant 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.