I wanted to put all the pics together of the car as I may never see that one again, and give all the well-wishers an update on my status.
For those that don’t know, I had a bad wreck yesterday morning en route to KC. I am not quite sure what happened - another car and I seemed to meet in the middle of the road and the result was not pretty. The other driver was an 86 year old woman who had scratches and bruises like I did - they said there didn’t seem to be much more wrong than that, but given her age she was taken by ambulance to a trauma center. I had my husband pick me up and we went to the hospital for me to be checked out. The worst thing at the time was my right hand, which was x-rayed - most of the fingers and thumb were purple and hurting badly - I think the airbag got them.
Photo by Brett Messinger
The two pics above were at the scene - the next two we took today at the towing place today, where my precious Jaguar is unceremoniously dumped. It feels like the Grave of Dead Cars there - very sad to think of it amidst the other abandoned, no-longer-useful pieces of machinery. (I watch Transformers too much, I think!! Or maybe it’s because of Cars…)
There is a news snippet by KOFO of Ottawa, KS, whose photographer I met at the scene: http://kofonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/elderly-ottawa-woman-treated-at-overland-park-hospital-after-crash I did not require an ambulance so that’s why it said I refused treatment. I went immediately upon leaving the accident site to the hospital in Garnett.
Today my neck is sore, left shoulder has a giant bruise, right arm has a deep scrape, knot and giant bruise, and my very purple fingers have lightened considerably and no longer hurt, a big relief. My thumb area does hurt - it’s swollen and bruised and seems tender. That is the hand they shoved a metal bar into when I broke my wrist 5 years ago, so I think that might have something to do with it. I think the airbag did this to my hand, as it was on the wheel when it deployed.
But I’m still here, and aside from feeling a bit sleepy, back to my semi-sarcastic self on Twitter (for better or worse for you folks, I guess.)
Tim & I assume, or rather, we’d be shocked if this car is not totaled when the adjuster sees it Thursday. I want another Jaguar - I was not done with this one!! So we are looking at used vehicles at Carmax where I got it, and beyond. I have my eye on a silver-with-cream interior. Hopefully it will work out.
And that’s how I spent the first day of the Twitter Oauthcalypse. Oy vey!!!
