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Monday, March 07, 2005
Yeah… things were back to normal.
I left early on a Saturday morning, about a month later, to pick up some items for breakfast before Mrs. Muzikdude awoke. It was a beautiful morning and traffic was light. I was just enjoying the drive… or as much as I could considering what I was driving.
Apparently, the serenity of the morning was not appreciated universally . A man, driving a Bronco, pulled out of a side street nearly cutting me off setting into motion a chain of events that took place over the next two seconds:
Since we were on a 5-lane road, I made the decision to simply change lanes and go around him. I didn’t have a side view mirror on the right side of the car so I glanced over my shoulder to check my blind spot. The lane was empty and I began my transition but when I turned my eyes forward, all I saw was the rear end of the Bronco, 5 feet in front of me, at a dead stop.
This guy had pulled out into traffic (me), driven 20 feet and stopped. He had planned to turn left on the next street but never turned on his signal. We were the only two vehicles on the road. If he had waited 2 seconds to pull out into "traffic" he would have been behind me and could have done whatever he pleased without bothering anyone.
Although I had taken my foot off the gas pedal prior to checking my blind spot, I never applied the brake so I was still going 45 mph as I plowed into the back of him.
I woke up on the shoulder of the road wondering what had happened. I was still in the demon car and a crowd was gathering to help me out of the vehicle. The demon car was dead. The engine had been knocked off the mounts, the hood was folded in half and resting on the windshield, the drive shaft was lying on the ground and the front driver side wheel had broken completely off the car. I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and the police suspected the only thing that stopped me from going through the windshield was the folded hood of the car. I walked away with a concussion and some cuts and scrapes… not too bad considering.
Of course, there were all the comments about how lucky I was to be alive and I never should have survived the crash because the car was in such bad shape.
The Bronco sustained little damage because I mostly went underneath its rear bumper and the driver barely knew I hit him. Of course, it was all my fault since I rear-ended him. He was just minding his own business, obeying laws and such…whatever.
The bright side is that the demon car was finally gone.
Or was it?
To be continued…
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