I had glass in my hand, and I was having trouble standing on my leg. The paramedics suggested that I go to the emergency room to be properly checked out. At that point, I was in a lot of pain and irritated.Īn hour or so later, I was checked out by the paramedics and my truck was being towed back home. ![]() ![]() My boss laid into me.īoss: “You are being unreliable you should have given more notice! If you don’t come in, you will be written up and then some!” While waiting for the police, I called work to let them know I wouldn’t be in. I didn’t have anything fatally wrong with me, but a day off would have done me a world of good. I banged my knee pretty hard on the bottom of the steering column, and the container of scrap copper I had sitting behind my front seats decided it liked my lap better. My hand went partially through the windshield, and my airbag didn’t go off. I wasn’t going very fast - perhaps 45 mph - but when I hit the SUV, my seatbelt moved from between my breasts to straight across one. I was on the way to work when my brakes failed. I tried very hard to not T-bone a very expensive SUV, but I was an inexperienced driver who wasn’t prepared for the possibility of not being able to stop. Was the failure a fault of the mechanics or just bad luck? Who knows? But my poor truck went from being a perfectly serviceable vehicle to being completely totaled after I couldn’t stop while approaching a busy intersection. The brakes on my truck failed four days after I had them replaced at a well-known and popular auto place. ![]() CONTENT WARNING : Car Accident, Injury, Blood
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