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Road trauma (read TWs)
Sorry for making so many threads recently. There's been a small amount of chaos and I'm still getting used to the new forums, but I think this deserves its own thread
TRIGGER WARNINGS
This whole thread comes with a few trigger warnings.
Car crash, blood, injuries, reckless/ dangerous behaviour due to mental illness, (not my own) and trauma from... well I think you can guess from the TWs.
No one died, but like, check the TWs before reading this. There's no shame in just moving onto the next thread.
END TRIGGER WARNINGS
Some of you might remember that back in November I ended up in a pretty bad car accident (though I've now found out that it may not have been an accident at all).
We were stopped at a traffic light. All of a sudden, we heard a huge bang, then another bang, and then the car was shoved forward violently. A car horn started blaring. My parents ran to the car behind us, very angry because why the hell would they ram into us like that. Then they noticed the air bags, and the three scared children in the back and also the fact that the driver said "Call an ambulance."
I looked out the window and saw a 10 year old walking to the side of the road. He was badly injured. Fuck. I got out of the car with a heap of tissues because even though I'm scared of kids I know first aid and someone's gotta deal with that. By the time I got to him there were some adults looking after him so I just gave the adults the tissues to stop the bleeding and looked around to see what else I needed to do.
And then I saw some people leading a shaking woman away from a third car, crumpled up against the second car.
I did not want a third car involved. It felt like there was an endless pile up of cars and I had no idea how long it stretched for. So I rush over to the woman all like "I know first aid is she okay?" She was not okay. She was going into shock. Fuck. Again. In my first aid class I had a first aid kit and hadn't just been involved in a car crash. She said she had to call her husband. Great, I thought, he can talk her through this. (he didn't. The husband is an asshole whose only role in this story was to annoy the police)
I looked at the endless pile up and saw that it in fact only contained three cars. I had no idea were the other people came from.
I got everyone towels from our car because that was the closest to the first aid thermal blankets I had.
The injured child was concerned about his tooth. His younger brother was screaming incomprehensibly but my mum was looking after him. The third child was only two and was being looked after by her mum.
Anyway I just kinda... stood around until emergency services came. There were a lot of emergency service vehicles. I don't think we actually needed eight police officers but the ambulances were useful.
The woman in the third car had gone completely grey. She had not been grey before. Her husband, who had arrived on scene, ignored her completely as she was loaded into the ambulance since he was too busy making a nuisance of himself.
The family in the second car got put into the other ambulances. The screaming child kept screaming until he was put in the same ambulance as his dad.
Anyway, dad met the dad of the family in the second car a few weeks ago. Him and his wife are still recovering physically. His wife is still traumatised, and honestly I can't blame her. The injured kid broke his arm, which has now healed. But the kid's gonna need dental work for the rest of his life.
My neck injuries have healed, but my mum's haven't. My brother keeps getting mystery headaches.
And the woman in the third car... we don't know whether or not she meant to cause the crash. But when she went to court, it came out that she had depression and was considering some things before the crash. She may have been on drugs. She was definitely not in a state where she should've been driving. She pleaded guilty to a fairly serious charge.
Then yesterday, my support worker was driving me somewhere, and next to us a ute started spinning out of control. It swung towards us and then towards some other cars and then into the crash barrier and then back towards us. I thought it was going to crash into the side of us, or smash into the front of someone else's car and fucking kill someone. The driver somehow regained control and pulled over without hitting anyone, but that was more luck than anything.
Anyway that was bad enough on it's own, but between that and the recent reminder of the first car crash I'm just waiting for things to go wrong.
And now I have a heap of triggers. Utes. Metal rails on the side of the road. Sirens, red or blue flashing lights (now including brake lights). Tires screeching. Sudden stops. Car horns. Wet roads. Busy roads. Stopping at traffic lights.
Anyway I'm sorry about how long this is, but I'm just overwhelmed and don't know what to do.