The rain wasn't supposed to still be here tonight.

The long week & little sleep wasn't supposed to be so effective.

The light wasn't supposed to be red.

The cars weren't supposed to mash together.

Tonight on the way home from picking up the boys, Crystle ran a red light due to being over tired on the dark rainy road.

They are OK. It was a big enough impact to set off both front airbags, but the boys were in the back.

She has a ouchie wrist from the bag's impact. Neither boy has any bruises, but Jarrison says his ears won't stop ringing. He saw it coming & screamed. Nicholas can't sleep.

We nearly beat the cops there! We happened to be at Walmart 2 miles away & she called & said "mom, I need you". We dropped everything & ran out the door.

The car is still there. It was pulled into a parking lot & the store owner said it could stay. In fact, he was very nice & brought the boys out some sodas.

The windshield is broken, hood is mangled & probably the radiator cracked. It was wet & dark, so we'll go tomorrow to evaluate it. Being a '95 Accord, it's probably totaled, but she'll need it. So we'll see what we can do to get it on the road.

The police were EXTREMELY nice. They didn't give her a ticket, just a warning. She freely admitted being at fault by running the light. They were more concerned about her & the boys well being.

The funny thing is that the 2 cops there were so complimentary to us for arriving to her aide & comfort so quickly.

She couldn't stop shaking, neither could Nicholas. After we had them settled a bit my prince put the boys in the Ridgeline & fired up a movie so they could just zone.

They are staying here tonight & my prince will take her to work tomorrow morning. I made her take a hot bath & gave her a Darvocet. She's already hurting everywhere. I'm sure that tomorrow walking will be hard for her. This will trigger the fibromyalgia into a pain cycle.

Please keep them in your thoughts & prayers to not have many, if any long term effects....physically, mentally or financially. She has insurance, but couldn't remember what her deductible is. That can be explored later.

Thanks in advance.

Prayers go out your way .

Your family shall be in my prayers.

Prayers go out your way.

+1. Hope everyone gets through it okay.

-GT

Our family prayers are for you and with you tonight. Regards

Richard

Will be thinking of all of you.

This brought back memory of a very close call I had in 1990 when I visited my cousin in Houston, we decided to go out for some tourist thing and she asked me to drive, her young 2 year old son sat in the back.

I was distracted with talking with her, and being unfamiliar in the area, did not notice the horizontally oriented traffic light that I've not seen before, as I've always seen the lights placed vertically anywhere that I've driven, there were also other visual distraction of trees, buildings, hydro wires in the background.

We sailed right through a red light, I only realized the red light when we were already 3/4 way through the intersection.......

Luck was on our side that day and nothing happened even though this was a fairly busy intersection and was mid morning.

I'm sure both of us were white as ghost when we looked at each other, I apologized profusiously to her, and to think her young son is also in the car just made me shake like a leaf at the time.

Her son is now a junior in college, bright and handsome, I feel very fortunate that I did not somehow cause a regrettable incident all those years ago..........

I hate to say this but this just brought back memories of my now deceased family. It only tells me about the horrors they also must have endured when they came face to face with death. I do not wish that to anyone at all!
I thank God for being there and looking out for your loved ones! I will pray to him to make things right. It seems to me that after he claimed everyone who loved me, he has started to listen to my prayers even more!
You are in my prayers!

Wow, sorry to hear. Good thing they all got out of it without major harm. Hope there's no lasting effects and recovery is fast!

I hope the car is drivable, just ugly till it's fixed. If not, our lives will be in total chaos for a while! Her shift this week is 1-10. So I'd have to leave @ 11 to take her to work & get back in the area just in time to get her boys. That would mean instead of 2 hours in the car that I have now, I'd be in it from 11-5. Then my prince would have to leave here @ 8:30 to pick her up...IF she gets off on time, he'd be back home about midnight. He gets up @ 5.

So the first step is to go see it in the daylight. Take pix before touching it & accessing it to see if it can make it here. Then tug & pull & do what we can to get it on the road.

She will call her insurance today, but the police report won't be available till Tuesday. That means they won't want to do anything till after that.

Thanks for the prayers. The boys are still in bed this morning. We checked them for seat belt bruises when we got home. They tried to bail out of the car right afterward because of all the airbag smoke, they thought the car was on fire.

The other car had 2 adults, no kids in it. She hit a back corner. Theirs isn't drivable because the back fender is hitting a tire. It can probably be pulled out to get it on the road again. It's an older Olds sedan. The woman driving had only had her license 2 months & was scared to death. She didn't do anything wrong & we kept telling her it was OK. The guy friend was drunk. He was hugging everyone. Very nice, but apparently one of those "I love you, man" drunks.:)

Since the limit there is 55, they are all lucky it was rainy & dark...she was only going about 40 due to the poor visibility.

I'll likely share pix with y'all later.

Poor car!

Sorry to hear about all the calamity but glad to hear everyone is OK.

Amazing how a split second can change your life...

Sorry to hear that, glad everyone is okay.

Starting to read the thread, I was scared to death something worse had happened. I am SO GLAD nobody was seriously injured!

My prayers will be with you and successful repair of her car!

Princess:

My condolences and prayers go out to You and Yours. :notworthy :hug:

Far as I'm concerned, ANY automobile accident is tramatizing, regardless of magnitude, and regardless of who is at fault.

MAIN thing is, that everyone walks away, unharmed. Sheetmetal can always be replaced. Limbs and lives cannot.

Hopefully with no core support, frame, or other major damage, your Prince can replace the windshield and front end. Then, like Willy Nelson famously sings, "On The Road Again!" :thmsup: :yes:

Your family will be in my thoughts and prayers...

Her manager at work sent her over to ER today. I haven't heard the results yet.

Her car is drivable!!:thmsup: UGLY, but drivable.

Here's before & after my prince tugged & pulled to get things lined up better. The AC still works! No leaks at the radiator, but the overflow bucket is broken. The whole front cross bar was curved in & the hood was up about 6+ inches on the passenger side. He got the hood latch to open & close.:)

So she can use the poor thing till she can get it fixed.

She found out today that when she took her ex off the insurance 2 weeks ago, they changed her plan to only be liability. That's not what she had before. I'm not sure how she'll handle that. She may just have to find her own hood, airbags, sensors, bumper, grille & windshield. Then make her dad install it all. :dunno:

Doesn't look as bad as I though but still needs work nonetheless. Is that Prince in the last picture of the car?

Yep, that's him.:yes:

I'm glad that everyone is okay and hope it doesn't cost too much. Pink airbags!

Maybe they're blushing 'cuz they got exposed.......:blush:

You and your family will be in my prayers.

All within 3 days of each other, there's been 3 Accords crunched!

Great grandma to the boys in CA was in an accident first, She has broken ribs from the air bag. I don't know the details of the accident itself. She is out of the hospital & in a "home" for a while. She's in her early 80s.

Her son, the boys bio-grand father & his wife managed to hit a raccoon & make their 08 Accord undriveable. Not sure how a raccoon can do that....but they were on their way back from visiting his mom....the lady in the first accident.

Then THIS one.

So 3 generations of one family were in 3 Accords & in accidents in 3 days!. 2 in CA & one in TX. That's just freaky!!:paranoid:

Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Or better yet Twilight Zone.... doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo.:)

All within 3 days of each other, there's been 3 Accords crunched!

Great grandma to the boys in CA was in an accident first, She has broken ribs from the air bag. I don't know the details of the accident itself. She is out of the hospital & in a "home" for a while. She's in her early 80s.

Her son, the boys bio-grand father & his wife managed to hit a raccoon & make their 08 Accord undriveable. Not sure how a raccoon can do that....but they were on their way back from visiting his mom....the lady in the first accident.

Then THIS one.

So 3 generations of one family were in 3 Accords & in accidents in 3 days!. 2 in CA & one in TX. That's just freaky!!:paranoid:

Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Or better yet Twilight Zone.... doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo.:)

Uh-oh :paranoid: Glad you & you're car are still in good shape Princess! doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo :blush:

In my country, there is a superstition stating that if two things get broken in one family, the third one will always follow. Although I'm a modern, scientific-oriented person, I tend to see such coincidences (?) frequently.

So, your family had done its share of Accord accidents :wave:

People often say "trouble comes in threes" here too. :)

Prayers go out to you and your family. Accidents are so unfortunate, but good thing nobody was hurt. Luckily the car doesn't look too bad, and is drivable!

Her aches are fading, the fear fading, the car is going....ugly, but going. So I guess things are back to as normal as ever.

Just weird for me to think about the idea that in a short time that branch of the family tree could have been pruned short. I'm so thankful it wasn't too bad. If she'd been T-boned, that side was Jarrison... I can't imagine life without him.

Thank you all for the good thoughts & prayers. :yes: I ask for 2 reasons....one is for the need. The other is to show when they work & the answer is what we'd like to hear.

Well three accidents so close together make one think hard and possibly feel vulnerable. Take a deep breath, relax, and appreciate what you have accomplished with raising a family. You have a roof over your head. All material stuff can be replaced, relationships cannot be replaced. Best to you, Regards

Richard

People often say "trouble comes in threes" here too. :)

:paranoid:
Not looking for another 2 this way...one was plenty!

Keep those spirits soaring, Princess.

My "spirits" seem to be in a funk lately. Not sure exactly why. :dunno: I AM so happy about the kids being OK. I'm happy about the others not having serious injuries.