Poughkeepsie, New York
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Hello, my name is Shana, I hope you can include these pictures
on you website. I was a passenger in this 1991 mazda miata (soft
top). My boyfriend was driving. He had actually just put this
car back together, he had it completely apart for painting and
for an engine swap. I remember we were joking around one day
as I picked up a wobbely fender and said if we ever crashed we
would definitely die. Anyhow, the car got put back together.
We were driving home late this night, about 2 in the morning
on Rt. 9 South in Poughkeepsie, NY. My brother was along side
of us in his jeep in the left lane, one car ahead of him, and
one ahead of us in the right lane. My boyfriend got in front
of my brother and his car started to slide back in the other
lane ( we were going about 55mph), he managed to get in front
of the car in the right lane but then the car started to turn
back again, it started to spin back into the other lane, it was
sideways actually and it looked like we gonna hit a guard rail
that went above the north bound side of 9. The car that was in
front of my brother, a pickup truck, who we were a few car lengths
ahead of did not stop. She hit us and the miata went backwards
putting the rear in line with the part of the guard rail that
came out of the ground. We went straight up it, cartwheeling
in between two trees and rolling 2 more times until the car landed
upside down into a drainage ditch.
My boyfriend needed 2 sets of stitches in his knee, and cracked
his scapula. I on the other hand got ejected, don't remember
much except for seeing the guardrail and the top of trees behind
it, thinking it was going to be very far down. I closed my eyes,
felt like I was on a rollercoaster, and heard my brother screaming
my name, which woke me up. It's kind of interesting that when
I was waking up I could have been home in bed for all I knew,
but then reality set in.
I couldn't answer him, I had the wind knocked out of me like
nothing I ever knew, when he and my boyfriend did find me, I
was laying parallel to the car, I tried to get up and I couldn't
move. I couldn't lift my neck, or my legs or arms. That has got
to be the scariest part, I was sure that was it for me. My boyfriend
hugged me and said he was sorry, he had blood on his face, which
was my blood from the side of my head. My brother then said he
was going to kill my boyfriend, and went for him, he was stopped.
It was a terribly emotional painful scarey experience.
I am very lucky. I had a hard time lifting my left leg for a
while, disk problems, and a shoulder blade thats still hurting
me almost a year later.
I understand everyone's belief in seatbelts, but I for once was
lucky I wasn't wearing one. I'm the girl who makes everyone put
their seatbelts on. This day I was not wearing one, of all the
days of being careful. The passernger seat was pushed out of
the rear of the soft top. It rolled that direction a few times,
and landed passenger side deep into the ditch, which I am positive
would have been my head.
I still wear my seatbelt like clockwork, and make everyone wears
theirs. But this day, not wearing one I do believe saved my life.
Here are some more pictures.
Oh! and the pickup truck girl along with her psycho father sued
my boyfriend, called our house 20 times in one day 5 days after
the accident, harrased my boyfriend at work, made sure he got
a ticket a month later, showed up at the court date, all for
a dent on her bumper. "you could have killed my daughter",
thats what he said. Moron.
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