So 9 months ago I was t-boned by a food delivery car by a black Audi car going for 30-40 km/hr in a pedestrian crossing between my university’s car park and gym

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Last year I was involved in a head on collision. I was making a left turn and a truck ran the red light and hit me head on going 80mph. I was in a ‘95 tbird and he was in a new f150.

yes i turned in front of him, no i was not found at fault.

I was told by multiple first responders and doctors that I should not have survived that accident, let alone walk away with only 5 broken bones. I’m just curious what the fatality rate is for an accident like mine, and the possibility that I would have survived?

I'm not sure where else I can really talk about this, so thought I'd post in here. I'm finding it super hard to connect to people following what happened to me and I'm starting to struggle again.

In June, I was walking home from work, it was still daylight and it's the route I always walk.

Next thing I knew, I was waking up on the road, a crew of ambulance workers were standing over me and I was in more pain than I'll ever have words to describe.

They told me a car had driven into me and drove off. A hit and run while I was on a pedestrian crossing. They'd cut my clothes off me and had been treating me while I was still laying in the road.

I was admitted into hospital with major injuries, my pelvis was shattered (broken in at least 5 places) my shoulder was so badly broken they couldn't operate on it. My ear had been partially ripped off and I had wounds to my head.

I've had to fight my way through recovery, life has not been easy since it happened. I've been left with weakness down the right side of my body, issues with being able to sit and walk comfortably and PTSD.

I just feel so broken these days since it all happened. I have days where I can cope with the pain and discomfort and some days where my brain hits the panic button and I'm left terrified, despite the fact that I'm safe now. In my lowest points, I'm wishing that the SUV had just killed me.

I genuinely cannot believe the inhumanity, the fact this guy drove into me and then left me bleeding out on the road. I don't know how I'm supposed to get over this and get back to who I was. Worse, because it's a crime, this is going through the justice system and I'm likely going to need to attend court and make statements. Even though I don't remember the moments before the accident.

I've had poor care and very little mental health support because I'm in the UK and the NHS is stretched so thin, that I'm just rotting in a wait list.

If anyone has any kind words. It'd truly be appreciated.

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Dose anyone know if I’m required by law to pay for the pole insurance expired at 12pm and accident happen around happen around 4:30 am in the morning so didn’t have insurance was trying to figure out if I have to pay it or not course they going send me the bill that I already received but some business don’t require you to pay like the towing company that towed my truck didn’t require to pay the tow fees I could just leave the truck there they can’t force me to pay the impound

Hi I’m a 28yrs Male I was recently in a car accident i believe my car was declared total loss damage.It was a bad car accident both car ended up completely destroyed. So I got a question the accident took place in an intern section were the lights weren’t working at the moment it was almost midnight and they were stop sign on the sign which you need to be extra careful to see them I believe I was at fault since I didn’t stop at the stop sign I didn’t see them I slowed down a bit since the traffic lights were not working. Hopefully nobody got hurt badly besides our cars we call the police and then i found out that the people who I was involved into the car accident they didn’t have a driver license and the license plates of their car was expired. I have to call the police since they start acting hostile towards me.Once the police arrive they make a case report and they took all the info from both of us I couldn’t take to many pictures at the moment since they were a lot of them and I was afraid that they could try to do something to me I already call my insurance my question is should I get a lawyer or is there something I can do to help myself out in this situation. Please I need help any advice is appreciated.

i got into a car accident on (10/24/24) so its been 2 days? its finally all settling in and idk how to get rid of this immsense guilt. a guy ran a red light and completely ruined the car... we had just fixed it, made it look nice.. thousands of dollars down the drain... my parents aren't blaming me but i wish they were. i feel so bad for ruining our one nice thing and now our way of transportation is limited. i cant stop thinking about it and all the many things i couldve done to avoid this. maybe if i had waited a little longer at the traffic light or if i had taken a different route. i just want to disappear, will it get easier later on or will i just live in immense guilt forever

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possible TW. (Injury, unrelated death )

A little backstory about My first car cuz I’m sad and I miss her. it was a beater who sat in a field for 4-5 years .occasionally he would start it and let her run ,A 96 grand Cherokee .I got her for $500 at 150 thousand miles from a family friend (Danny) who I looked up to and went to him for support .She had some problems and electrical quirks that I grew comfortable with and I loved her shitty paint.
—— I have had intrest in numerology for a bit but didn’t think anything too significant of what happens next in my story until a few days after the accident 4 days before I quit my job for another I was closing my register and my totals were all 4s. $4,444 total safe drops ,$444 final drop , $0.44 short, after I quit I started my new job on June 20th and my manager asked if I was okay with using knives “I’m a little accident prone “ I replied (I cut fruit ) after no work for a week and working a full day I was tired and driving out to a night fishing spot we liked to go to at the end of an agricultural levee road I drove my Jeep he drove his a few minutes ahead of me I came around a curve going WAY too fast and I felt her fishtail ,I just knew it was the end for her I ended up. spinning my rear around and rolling down a hill .(my guardian angels stepped in and ) halfway down she ejected me ,gently . Rolled on top of me I can still feel her weight and continued rolling. Landing on her roof the engine stopped running , I crawled back inside after screaming for Siri to call my man I couldn’t find my glasses or my phone or anything It was almost midnight I pushed the brake with my hand and shifted her to park pulled my keys.and tried to crawl out and stand up , I couldn’t stand I had torn my acl completely and partially torn some other ligaments in my knee .I used my good knee to scoot up the hill backwards on my butt through the stinging nettle and milk thistle ,as the moonlight shines down on my glasses perfectly in my path I grabbed them and kept going up then wallet and my phone laying face up with my man calling (that is the only way I was able to see my phone) he called knowing something was wrong (I wasn’t arriving at the destination) and he turned around and drove back on the way back is when he called. As I saw him coming around the bend I waved my flashlight as it was too dark for him to see me otherwise he picked me up and we called the ambulance (over 6mo of healing and I got my job back ) I remember seeing a bright flash of white when i was laying there on the ground before I got up to crawl inside the car

I know who my angel was and I know he was telling me that day (444) that he had me he was gonna protect me I should have had way more injuries I shouldn’t even be alive. The damn thing almost crushed me but I never even lost consciousness everything is And was so vivid Danny had passed a month prior to my accident (may 20th) the only damage to the side of the car that rolled on me was the side mirror and the front fender was pushed in. The other side was nearly crushed. I have trouble being a passenger now and I have extra anxiety going around curves. But I’m getting over it slowly

• I apologize about the punctuation and spelling

-feel free to ask me anything !

I was in a minor fender bender today. This lady in front of me slammed on her breaks and it caused me to rear end her. She got barely a scratch and my number dented in. But had the cops been called, I would have been issued the ticket at fault cause I hit her from behind. We exchanged information and I gave her my insurance information and we decided not to call the cops and just solve it through insurances. Anyone ever been in this situation ? Any shed light would be appreciated

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Today I was in an accident and the police ruled it as my fault. 🤦‍♀️ Anyway there was not much damages to the other drivers car but my car had the most damages. Anyway, I’m here to vent a little, don’t have many people to talk too. I have full coverage with State Farm and I’m afraid they may drop me due to this. (This will be the first accident claim with them) I’m super upset with myself. I feel like I don’t even deserve a car at this point. The car note is high enough and now my premium is going to go up also and I might also lose coverage. Idk what to do. I need my car for work. I live in a rural area so there’s not much……I really screwed my driving record and soon my live because I lose the car I lose everything. I’m definitely not in the right head space at the moment. 😣

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I was involved in a head-on collision we were both doing 100 km an hour. He was coming around the corner on the wrong side of the road as he was on his phone. This happened aweek ago I'm very sore all over We walked away but I still feel guilty because looking at the photos I was inches away from killing him. I’m not sure how to get past it. That’s all I see in my head and that's all I think about the vehicle I was in rolled three times and I nearly died with him but I don't seem to comprehend that any advice on what to do to get over it welcome thank you

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So I was rear ended mid Aug of this year by a big box truck, my sedan was totaled and I jave had physical therapy for 5 weeks. I’m doing stretches and getting messages and all that but it hasn’t left, a lot of the pain has left but the lower back, in the center, can almost always be tingly or in pain. I got a new truck with the payout money for my old car and about everyday I use the heat seats to help, I take the meds they give me, they said nothing was broken, I may have had a minor concussion, and docs just say to keep taking meds and drinking water etc. I feel like I’m never going to get better and it sucks, I’m 29 and it takes me so long to get out of bed in the am because my back, I can’t go on long car rides without being in ache, even the other day I only drove half an hour and my entire back started to ache. It doesn’t help that I’ve always had a sensitive back and had to make myself a side sleeper or else my back aches in the am.

For anybody that has gone through something similar do you have any advice?

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I'm not ready to fully talk about what happened to me but wanted to check in here just to say hi.

In June, I survived a hit and run. I was left with major injuries which I'm still healing from.

The entire ordeal has been a lot and it can get so scary and stressful.

I've definitely ended up with PTSD and while I've been assessed by multiple mental health workers; they cannot provide an official diagnosis. So I'm in process of trying to work out how to obtain that as well.

I'm trying to focus on moving on and more than anything, I'm just so thankful to the people who cared enough to stop, protect my body and get an ambulance to me. I'm incredibly lucky to be alive. And want to keep living the best I can.

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Check out this article in Perspectives on Politics by a professor from UC Boulder about people like us who were injured or lost family members in crashes and how not only is it effective in making change but it also can really be helpful. Specifically, she argues that “grief-advocates can re-conceptualize the losses and harms they have suffered as policy problems, rather than random, inexplicable events.” She also states that political involvement offers Families for Safe Streets members “unique ways of finding meaning in the tragedies victims have suffered and that collective action offers many emotional benefits.”

TW: recounting the accident

i was in my first big car accident yesterday and it was terrifying. i’ve been driving for a year at this point and honestly— haven’t been the most smooth/safest driver. had some close calls before, but (without giving away too many details) this one was completely up to chance. i was technically at fault but the other driver was also speeding.

the feeling of knowing that you’re going to be hit is indescribable. i’ve had dreams about accidents before— and it was exactly like that. i keep remembering feeling the car spin and the second of blackout before i had truly realized what had happened.

i was on the phone with someone else hands free and i wasn’t able to process that they were speaking until a few seconds after. i didn’t realize until after that my glasses were knocked off of my face, it had been hours and we had to go find them in my car after the wreck.

they need to tell people in driver’s ed that when the airbag pops out, there’s going to be powdery smoke and it’s going to smell like burnt rubber, i’m so glad that i’m not the only person who immediately thought their car was on fire. witnesses flocked to see if i was okay and i could only say that i was fine but having a panic attack. i don’t think i’ve ever been so scared in my entire life.

no injuries were sustained, i’m just incredibly sore. i was hysterical the entire time. the thing that bothered me the most was that people kept recording me as i went by. i can’t understand how at someone’s lowest, you’d exploit them like that. i didn’t even know where i was when i saw the first phone camera— the guy had his flash on too.

both cars were totaled and three of my airbags went off, it’s a miracle no one was hurt. i think we just collided at the right angle to where nothing happened.

unfortunately i’m having a hard time processing. i want to go back to normal, but i can’t, but i feel as though i’m not injured or affected enough to be upset about it a day later. i keep googling the streets where it happened to see if there’s any footage of it and looking at car crashes to process it, which i’m sure isn’t a good idea. has anyone else done that?

i’m so glad there’s a place to talk about this.

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I recently was involved in my first ever car accident. I was alone on my way to work and I had the right of way. Another car on the opposite side of the intersection was turning left, I didn’t have time to react before our cars smashed together. The airbag on the passenger side deployed and busted the windshield glass just showered me. Our cars collided into 180°, the powder from the airbag was so thick I was choking and couldn’t breathe. I did not know powder would Come out during an airbag being deployed. I assumed with the burnt smell, the car was on fire or about to catch fire. For whatever reason I wasn’t able to tell myself I could just open the car door? I was calm during the entire scenario and reporting process. I recognized that was shock.

No one was injured thankfully, many neighbors around the area came out of their houses and mostly surrounded the other vehicle involved so I didn’t truly know who was all involved or who the driver of the other vehicle was at the time. After receiving the report just a few days ago, I learned the driver was 16 years old and the passenger was 15 years old. As many times as I’ve revisited the incident in my mind. Since the accident happened I’ve had so much guilt and I’m not sure why. I was not the one who was deemed at fault. I have a therapist and I’ve discussed the accident in attempts to process it all but I can’t shake the feeling of excessive guilt. I’ve noticed increased fatigue and have no energy for anything. I wish I could lay in bed and sleep until I’m not tired anymore. I’m trying to convince myself that everything is fine, no one was hurt and that’s all that should matter. I saw the other person’s car when I went to retrieve some of my belongings in my car and I couldn’t help but feel sick to my stomach. Their car is 100% totaled. Mine seemed to not have much damage, mostly a headlight, windshield and 1 airbag. I don’t feel like anyone understands. I don’t feel like I understand myself either.

I was in a motorcycle accident 8 months ago and I feel like it broke me. It is hard typing this because I still have not accepted the reality of it all. I was sitting at a red light waiting to turn left when a car across the crossroads ran the light and got hit in the side causing both cars to hit me. I saw the accident unfold right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do. Everything slowed down and I just saw a car basically flying towards me. I did not have time to brace myself or even think oh sh*t. After that it was pretty much a blur. I tried to crawl out the road, but passed out after a few feet I believe. I was barley conscious on the side of the road when bystanders started approaching the scene telling me not to move or try to take my helmet off. The only thing I remember saying is "I think my leg is bleeding really bad" over and over again before I completely passed out. I was life flighted to a trauma center about 30 miles away. I do not remember being loaded up or even being in a helicopter. When I woke up in the hospital it was the same night, probably about 45 minutes after the accident. I did not remember what had happened at all. I did not know whether it was day or night, or where the accident happened, what city it happened it; it was all a blank. I had a severe concussion and could not remember what I was even involved in. I did not even know I was on a motorcycle. Thankfully I still knew my name and my address pretty much everything besides that one day was wiped from my memory.

My first night in the hospital was in the trauma unit where they scanned and looked over my entire body. They did not miss a inch, even checking where the sun does not shine, but I was so out of it I did not even care. I had bad deep cuts in my leg that required over 100 stiches in the front and in the back. Once the ran scans they found that I had messed up my internals pretty bad such as cuts on my kidneys and lungs and some internal bleeding. After the trauma unit I spent three days in the observation unit being monitored and having scans I guess. I was still pretty out of it. The doctors missed something in my scans with my chest bone. I had broken my sternum at the joint so it was hard to read cause it was still in place but the joint connecting it to the rest of my bone structure was allowing it to slip in and out. Pretty much like a dislocation, but it keeps going in and out of place instead of having to be set. This caused me to not be able to move. Almost like being paralyzed, but still can move. I could not sit up or roll over without having a great deal of pain. It limited me in a lot of ways. My last 2 days in observation were kind of like physical therapy days. They tried to get me up to walk with walker because they still had not found what was wrong with my chest and honestly I did not either at the time. The only (Known) hindrance was my leg with 200 stitches in it, but every time I would stand with the walker my chest bone would dramatically pop and cause me to almost fall. It was not until the next day a therapist came in and said "you have to be strong and walk, your young" and all that, that I finally said FK it and told her to feel my chest and I sat up and all you heard was this loud pop and my bone pop out and back in. She made this crazy face and basically said something is not right about that. Then they decided to put me in a wheelchair to work my legs out. My feet and bad leg swelled up like a balloon. I do not blame any of my doctors or my care team because honestly it was a rare case I felt. Whenever I would have a scan I was laying down with no movement so the injury was pretty much not existent.

After that I spent about 4 more day in the recovery wing where I pretty much just ate and watched Youtube on my phone while they tried to figure out what was going on with my chest. Honestly for a hospital the food was amazing, but maybe that because a few days prior I was close to never eating again. I gained about 15 pounds while in the hospital which I am glad about I only wish I was able to work out cause this is my cut period lol. While in recovery I was aloud to have visitors just not overnight because I had a roommate. He was a cool guy in a certain situation like me. My last 2 days they found that I had fractured my sternum and that was what was limiting my mobility so they released me in a wheelchair. That was probably the hardest part of it all I was in a wheelchair for probably a month at home where I did not do any physical therapy. I had to teach myself to walk again once my chest was healed enough that I could stand.

Being in such a vulnerable state was hard for me. I had to urinate in jars and my parents had to take it and pour it into jars. That lasted for a solid 2 days till I could not stand it anymore. So no matter how much pain it was I would get my wheelchair as close to the bed get in it and go to the bathroom. I think back to the pain and it was just insufferable. Pissing was not the hard part it was getting in and out of bed. During my days I would try and walk a few steps but the way my leg was sown up and how the muscle was rearranged my leg was tight and I had to reteach myself to walk. I would take steps like a baby to get to my wheelchair or roll and get up to get to the refrigerator. It was probably one of the worst times in my life, but somehow I always stayed positive. I lie to myself really to this day. I can't get into my feelings because then I won't want to post this and end up deleting it all. I am broken and I will never be the same, but it is okay because life is constant fight and you have to tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself to keep fighting.

It has been 8 months and about a month ago my physical therapist for my leg (I have multiple) basically said there is nothing more we can do for you and discharged me from therapy. I made excellent progress in the beginning I regained a lot of the strength in my leg. Enough to where I could go from a squat to standing with needing to use my upper body. After that it was the same thing over and over again. It seems like it is working so I try to go grocery shopping or just walk through the store and then my leg tightens up like I was just as flexible as a trapeze artist the day before. Just walking feels like I ran a 400m relay. Other than that I still have problems with my sternum everyday, but it is no where near how it was in the beginning. It still pops out but with less pain and I have a lot of upper body mobility. I can't lay on my side or it will slip out and hurt for a few minutes and when I cough or sneeze it pops. The first timetable for it to heal was about 8 weeks. Then it turned to 3 months. I am still being told give it time for it to heal, but I don't know if it ever really will. I try to stay away from activities that could cause further injury to it or prolong its healing, but a lot of the things I loved to do would mess it up if something were to happen. Maybe it is ptsd or I really know I will mess it up if I do them. An example would be working out at the gym. Bench press, pull-ups, push-ups, maybe even squats. None of my physical therapist have told me to try these things yet, so that is probably my hint. My internals healed up nicely so that's good. I still suffer from post concussion syndrome that at this point I don't even notice it anymore. I don't try to remember things at all either its there or its not. I have been dealing with some pretty bad disassociation that I can't seem to shake. When around family it is like I'm not even there. I got better at following and holding conversation, but I still can't do it. I process and start responding and halfway through my sentence what they just said is gone and what I was trying to say vanishes cause I was trying to remember what they said.

My mental status is pretty much broken. I look in peoples faces with smiles and don't know what I'm smiling at. I don't know who I am or what I was before the accident. I don't know what shaped me into who I am. It's like I'm a shell or just a body walking around to just feel up space. Do I matter? The real question I ask my self is does anyone matter. Does anything that we do affect really affect anything at all. It does in the present of course, but in the future who is to say. I guess that is why I have a hard time being around family. Knowing that my death would have hurt so many people that care about me, but life goes on. I see myself as a dead man and how life would return to normal after a while. Which makes me feel peaceful about the whole ordeal. After the accident I thought a lot about what I was leaving behind. The love that I shared with people I saw myself as selfish because when I had the motorcycle I was okay with dying or that being the outcome. You hear the stories of all the people who have passed while riding and I felt okay with becoming one of those stories if that is what God had instore for me. It was selfish. I felt sick looking my little nephew in his eyes. Looking my sisters in their eyes. My family who cares if I was living or gone. I worked past the feeling, but now I'm in limbo where I just view my life like my family has moved on. Maybe I'm grieving the version of myself I lost, but I will find my way.

Thank you for those who listened to my very very long story. Hopefully there are not to many mistakes or repeating in it. Have a good day :)

I was injured, or re-injured in a car accident recently. I say re-injured because in February of this year I was rear ended pretty hard while sitting at a red light. This resulted in a TBI, back and knee injuries, and loss of my job. Fast forward to September 2024, and I was on my way to pick up my daughter from work and I was sitting at a red light and I was hit again. This time, I was hit on the driver’s side. Have not hired an attorney yet for a few reasons.

I went with an attorney for the first accident expecting they would help. To this day I still haven’t gotten anything not received a payment from this accident. They said they could only get $50k and out of that is their fee, paying the medical after negotiating for reduced amounts, and then I get paid roughly $15k at best.

Now I’m thinking, should I just get my care as normal through the VA (no charge) and negotiate with the insurance on my own for a maximum payout this time? Or get an attorney? Need a new brain scan and it definitely has agitated my back. I don’t know what to do.

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Yesterday I got into an accident where this guy tboned me. I was going straight and then all of a sudden the car hit me and what happened was that there were a bunch of witnesses as well at the scene but I was unable to get the number of the witnesses because I was just so in shock, but anyways the police had been said that the the guy that hit me didn’t have the right of way but I still don’t know what to do. I’m still so stressed about what to do. Will I be screwed if they try to change up the story ? I get a police report on Monday. Hopefully everything will be ok.