[TML] Joel brings the New Year in with a bang!

[Knapp]

On Jan 4, 2008 10:10 AM,  <traveller at dhimaging.com.au> wrote:
> Well, where to begin.
>
> I left the house 30-Dec to get some groceries stocked up for New Years Eve
> and New Years Day.
>
> On the way back with a car full of groceries and some pizza for tea, the sun
> was very low and brightly glaring in my windscreen.  I came up on a sharp
> curve and standing in the middle of the road (but slightly in my lane of
> traffic) was a giant 'roo.
>
> I swerved to my left to avoid hitting it, but my left tyres went off the
> bitumen (pavement) and I started losing control.   I then started steering
> to the right to compensate and I tried to apply the clutch to let the car
> slow down (rather than slamming the brakes on).
>
> Good plan, but the car only sped up!  Little did I know that in my excited
> state, I was actually applying full throttle to the accelerator rather than
> applying the clutch.
>
> Sigh.
>
> At one point, I was sliding backwards down my lane of traffic, slowly
> spinning.  When I saw the edge of the road and the trees growing up from it,
> I knew it was bad.  Then the Jeep hit (something), the view out the
> windscreen tilted (hard), and I remember being ejected through either the
> passenger side window or the removable hard top.  I'm still not sure which
> one, but the amount of glass they plucked out of my head makes me think it
> was the window.
>
> I lost consciousness and when I woke up, I was lying on the hardtop, the
> Jeep was on its side with the motor still running, and someone was telling
> me "it's going to be okay, but for GOD'S sake - DON'T MOVE!".
>
> A few days in Hospital (they were worried about the loss of consciousness,
> the cuts on my head, and the massively large bruises all over my abdomen and
> thighs), and they finally let me out.
>
> The Jeep is a write-off (the frame is wrecked.  The wrecker operator says
> the frame on a Jeep Wrangler is a very heavy duty type and for it to be
> twisted and warped as bad as it was, it must have been a pretty bad
> accident) - I have some car yards preparing quotes to buy what's left off of
> me (for parts).  I had recently fallen on hard times and the car did not
> have insurance.
>
> I've secured financing for another vehicle (2nd hand, but in great shape and
> with a 3-year bumper-to-bumper warranty) and I just drove it to the house
> about an hour ago.  I went VERY slowly and when I went past the place I
> wrecked the Jeep, I was amazed.  If I had gone off the other side of the
> road, there was a 20-meter fall-off and it was wall-to-wall pine trees.  No
> way would I have survived.  And to be honest, everyone keeps telling me that
> normally if a person is ejected from a vehicle when it's involved in a very
> bad accident, they don't survive to talk about it.
>
> =sigh=
>
> So, what did I miss?
>
> -Joel
Sounds like you missed finding out the answer to the resent list
discussions about God. Not so sure about the roo.
Douglas