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Well it as the title says, I had my first auto accident yesterday. I was headed to pick up my brother from school using the route I normally used to get there. Well because of the snow storm that hit the states yesterday, the roads were icy and not even three blocks away from my house I crashed going down the fort street hill. The hill is probably 100 feet tall, and when I got 3/4 of the way down the hill I must have hit some ice. Cause I started to drift and there was nothing I could do to stop it. My right side tires left the road and gravity pulled me into the ditch. But the ride didn't stop there, I kept going having lost all control of my van. I hit a telephone pole that was 50 ft off of the road head on with the passenger side of my van at 30+ miles per hour. Needless to say it was not fun, my whole body aches including my neck. I'm pretty sure I have bruises on things I didn't know I could have bruises on. For now I think I bruised my knees, my right eye (cause it hurts to move it side to side) and my neck is killing me. The airbags did deploy so that helped and I escaped even more damage by hitting the passenger side rather than the driver's side. I was not the only one to crash on that hill that night either, as we went to make arrangements with the tow truck (which was about 5 hours later), we noticed that 4 - 5 other cars had slide out on that same stretch of the hill. I was the first one to crash, but I was not the last.

I'll try to see if I can get a picture of the van, it got totaled hitting that pole but at least i'm still alive. I can always get another car. The only strange thing about this is that I don't seem to have a seat belt bruise. I seen pictures of them in my driver's safety course 2 years ago and I somehow managed to be able to get out of my van virtually unscathed with no seat belt bruise.

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I'm glad to hear that you are ok Griswold! It must suck to loose the van but it sounds like you dodged the worst of it, and having an Angel's Mark sucks more than you would think. That seat belt bruise makes it hard to breath and bend (if it managed to crush your hips down too), have had several from being a passenger in wrecks and it blows major nuts.

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Yeah good to know you survived the worst of it, dont be tempted to sit and do nothing if you have got whiplash as it makes it worse in the long run. Pistol clip in the air you're still walking and able to dust yourself down :)

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Good to hear your OK Gris, I have been in about 3 crashes myself (only one was my fault) they definitely are not fun. The worst I had was when I was about your age in my second year of college when a car ran a red light and plowed into me and a few friends. I was knocked unconscious and thrown across the van (there were no seat belts in the back of the van) I woke up in a neck brace with my right leg killing me. It turned out I had a deep muscle bruise that had almost severed the muscle. I had months of rehab and had to have my leg (I had water on the knee) drained several times. Crashes are not a pleasant experience. I am glad you came away from it relatively unscathed. You should have that neck checked out though.

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Well, as long as you made it out O.K. Gris then you can't ask for anything more. These things happen with the winter season so don't feel too bad about your van. Everything has its ways of working out. Again glad your not seriously hurt Gris.

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Here are 2 picture I took of the van after impact. As we were going through it to clean it out of any important material left inside, the bumper fell off.

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you are a lucky man

i rolled my car about 3 years ago doing 40-45 mph in a 65 mph zone. fun stuff

it was pretty cool experience being in a accident for a first time (I felt like i was in vietnam crawling out of a helicopter crash) although, buying a new car isn't that much fun..

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