This was inspired by a weekly theme which was speed. Now when you say speed, I put my money on it that first thing you think of is traffic. I find it crazy how fast people drive these days, including busses. Some of the drivers on my work route are some crazy ass drivers. Sometimes I wonder is it because I’m a bad passenger or are they actually lunatic drivers. You see, about 8 years ago I broke my arm in a car accident, and I’ve been a rubbish passenger since. I’m not sure if you’ve seen that seatbelt add “they say the guy without the seatbelt did the damage”? Well he sometimes does! I was the front seat passenger on our way home from a nighttclub, and I was the only person with a seatbelt on in the car. Another mate of mine and his girlfriend of the time were in the back. My mate starts rimming it home, but me being drunk and half way through a tasty burger didn’t really notice. He goes over the brow of a hill, hits some loose chippings, and slightly loses control of the car. Some unfortunate lady drives around the bend towards us, with her kid in the back seat, and we hit her head on. Guy in the back with no seatbelt continues his journey through the 2 front seats, through my arm and smashes the bone in 2. He continued his journey though, hit’s the front windscreen, but luckily comes back off it, not through it. I didn’t feel it at the time, all I can remember is how loud the bang was. It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard in my life! When my hearing returned it was pure silence, then I heard the girl in the back crying in panic. My mate is groaning between the 2 seats. Driver is slumped over the steering wheel, I was sure he was dead. “I need to call a f***k**g ambulance!”. Go to undo my seatbelt… “OW!”. Use my left hand instead. Take my mobile phone out… it’s dead. I don’t know what to do, my arm is litterally buggered, I thought it was a dislocated shoulder. So I think to myself, I gotta put this back in place or I won’t be able to help anyone. I get out of the car, lie on the ground, press my shoulder…. Second OW!… it’s broken, not dislocated! Tried to get up… but unfortunately by now the pain has started to kick in so I can feel how sore it is… and now I can’t move. So here’s me lying on the side of a road, 3 people in a car, 1 not moving, and god knows what’s going on in the other car. Eventually a bus comes by and sees the accident, so stop to help… and I find out that thankfully everyone survived it.
Woman in the other car broke a couple of bones, 1 in her leg. The kid thankfully came out pretty unscathed. Both recovered pretty quickly. Driver in our car broke a bone in his forearm. Girl in the back seat got a bad gash on her face. Back seat supermans damage included a sore back and a slight headache. They all recovered pretty quickly too. I came out with a broken humerus, 2 operations, 1 to insert a bar through the middle of the bone, and 1 to take it back out again, 8 months of physio because of deteriorated muscles and a loss of about 25% movement as a result of a slightly misaligned bone repair, so somehow managed to come out the worst… But I couldn’t care less. We all survived. I thank all our lucky stars since that day that each and everyone of us came out the right side of that accident, sure, with a few war wounds, but alive and well.
Net result: the guy without the seatbelt does the damage
