Drive safe

[HOOD]

Found this old clipping of the car accident that I was in 8 yrs ago when me and two mates went on a fishing trip. We never got there.
Every time I see it it scares the crap out of me to think that I was in that car.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/NotquiteRHood/paperclip.jpg

I was sitting behind the driver of the 4X4 on the left.
My mate that was driving died two weeks later. R.I.P
I broke the back of the seat and ended up in the cargo area of the 4X4, fractured my lower back in two places which later went on to pinch the nerves, with surgery they only gave me a 5% chance of ever walking again luckily for me the other 95% swung in my favour. Broke my right leg that bad they couldn't work out how it was still attatched and the bone wasn't protruding from the leg. I had a Titanium rod the full length of my femure and pins in my leg for 12 months. Smashed 7 teeth out and fractured the right eye socket.

The driver of the other car fell asleep at the wheel after driving for 23.5 hrs non-stop after leaving Esperence at 7.30am on the Saturday morning with his wife and 3 grand kids in the car aswell. All because he wanted to be back in Bendigo by Monday morning to sign realestate papers so he didn't loose the property he was after.
Well he never got it as he died on impact.

The police said that me and my other mate that was in the front of the car owe our lives to Justin, as he had moved our car halfway off the road just before the impact, as he could see the other guy swerving all over the road ahead. So the front right corners hit and spun the cars out.

I can tell you first hand it ruins lives. It certainly changed my life for ever. I am on painkillers 24/7 and have trouble doing a lot of the things that people take for granted in everyday life.

By no means am I after any simpathy (not that you's would give me any) but rather thought I'd show what can happen if you are not careful. So please take care when driving and share the driving if you can. And watch out for the other idiots on the road.
As ya mum has probly told you a million times before "it's better to be late then never"
So is getting to that meeting, movie or hunting/fishing trip really worth risking your and friends lives for??????

Hood 8)

Drive safe

[Glenn]

That's nogood for your mate Hood, it's a pity he had to die because of the actions of someone else, just goes to show you you have to take into account of the other drivers on the road. Speed does kill whether you are driving fast or you don't have the necessary breaks to get there saftely just to save time. It is a bugger to live with constant pain and you have to regulate your life around it...Glenn...

[GladstoneCrow]

8) Thanks for sharing your tragic car accident with us... It's a worry evertime we drive on the road. You might be doing the right thing but what about the other driver......
I was also in a car accident as a teenager in the passengers side. We came around a bend wide and the car coming the other way cut the corner.. hit head on..... I was thrown out of the passengers door and only recieved massive bruising all over..... strange thing was that they were unable to open the door that I exited from 10mins earlier.... The engine was squashed small enough to fit into a shopping bag...
Just a question..... who own the dog and did he survive afterwards?
.....Crow 8) 8)

[HOOD]

Crow I still have no Idea as to who's dog it was. It was not in our car, so I'm assuming it was theirs. But for some unknown reason he jumped back into our car. The only thing that we can work out is that he was laying on my sleeping back that may have had my dogs smell on it so he felt comfort with another dogs smell. He did live which was good.

As your story tells Crow you just never know what is around the next corner.

It is a bugger to live with constant pain and you have to regulate your life around it...Glenn...
To right Glenn but putting up with my pain and altering things I do is a small price to pay for being alive today. As I know how close I came to not being here today to tell the story.

The injuries I sustained from the accident are the main reason I took up archery in the first place, as I was not allowed to play football or cricket and any other rough sport, as I can't afford to get hit in the back.
So it's not all bad.

Hood

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