It's hard to believe...

Chris said he thought the car would look worse.....

I guess if you wern't in the car when it happened, it might not look that bad. I don't have any pictures of the car flipped over in the ditch, but that was a frighteningly surreal sight. The roof is caved in RIGHT over my head... I'm pretty sure the seatbelt saved my life.

I have to say this is by far the scariest thing that I have ever personally gone through. Getting out of the car and then seeing the two car seats hanging upside down all I could do was thank God they wern't in the car with me.

Unfortunately the insurance company is taking a while to get back with us on the status of the claim. Since I swerved to avoid contact, I am placed at fault for the accident as far as the insurance company is concerned, although the police report does not place me at fault. Believe it or not, they are actually considering trying to repair this car rather than totalling it. How safe can a car be when they have to cut the roof off and weld on a new one? If they fix it, we'll be getting rid of it ASAP. Makes you think twice about buying a used car dosen't it? Would you want to buy a car that looked like this just a few months before you purchased it? How functional do you think the safety features will be?

We are going to really push for them to total this vehicle if they don't decide to do so on their own. We looked yesterday at buying a new car. I think we are going to go the hybrid route and get a Prius. We don't really know at this point what we will be able to afford, because typically when cars get totalled they don't wind up giving you the entire loan amount back, which means we are most likely upside down in the cost of the car and will have to come up with money to pay off that loan first.

As for the person who caused this and drove away - there were no other cars on our side of the highway - so nobody got a license plate number or a description of the car. It was dark, so from the other side of the road, across the ditch, they couldn't really tell what was going on. I suppose their conscience (if they have one, which I doubt)will have to be their punishment. The only description I can give of the car is that it was black with darkly tinted windows and chrome trim on the door. That's all I saw. The rest is a blur.

Bad Day...

Tonight on the way home from work someone wasn't paying attention. They started to merge into my car and ran me off the road. I was heading straight for a steel post, so I slammed on the brakes and turned the wheel hard to miss the post. My car spun out of control and flipped over in a ditch of water. I had to swim out the window. The other car drove away without ever stopping to see if I was alive. Some very nice people stopped to help me get out of the car. I'm sure that they were put there to remind me that not everyone is a complete jerk like the person who drove off. The car is totalled. I am ok, thank goodness, just lots of cuts, scratches, and bruises. I am sure I am going to be super sore tomorrow. I am so glad I was alone in the car. Judging from how the car seats looked hanging from the seats, the kids would have been hurt really badly. I am very thankful that God spared me from something much worse.