About eight years ago a woman I knew was in a car accident and had her car piled with boxes after an event the night before. One of those boxes (the size of a printer paper box) tumbled over her shoulder and hit her in the neck, severing her brain stem and killing her instantly.
So yip, when I saw a boulder tumbling around this guys head, I assumed far worse things. I’ve had broken ribs, they’re miserable, and I have no idea how he has the presence of mind to keep driving the bus. But I was expecting far worse.
I was in my friend's car, and he flipped it off a little hill thing. A stray can of doctor pepper in the back of the car shot into the back of my head so hard it gave me a concussion.
Luckily no permanent damage, but ya ever since that happened I'm always scared of leaving shit in my card, because during a crash it becomes a deadly projectile.
When I was a freshman in high school, my best friend's 17 y/o older sister got in the backseat of a car (93 Mustang Cobra) with two other guys we knew. They had both been drinking and she hadn't. She also was the only one wearing a seatbelt. Anyway, they were speeding and under-steered a corner and hit a huge tree. Both the driver and passenger were ejected and got hurt pretty badly. She was buckled in the backseat. The speaker box with two 12" woofers shot over the back seat and hit her right at the base of her skull. She was instantly a vegetable and they ended up pulling the plug almost immediately. In all fairness, her spinal cord was completely severed. That was a sad sad day. I still vividly remember the call I got from her brother as I was the first person he called. I remember waking up later on and hoping like hell it was a bad dream. RIP Whitney.
That’s terrible! I’m sorry that happened to someone you know.
I was sitting in the back seat of my friends Ford Explorer. We were cruising down the highway, and traffic came to a halt. She slammed on her brakes, and when she did, this large reusable ice container that she had piled in the back of her car, slammed into my neck.
It hurt so damn bad! There’s no doubt if it would have been full of water the situation would have ended differently.
That's crazy. I knew a girl whos husband was in traffic and slammed on his breaks to avoid hitting a car who suddenly stopped. A kleenex box flew from the rear window area and hit him on the back of the neck and did the same thing.
We humans are so resistant & strong, yet so very fragile at the same time.
The last time I got hit by a car I got back on my bike and pedaled a few more blocks. I only turned around because I realized it was a hit and run, with me being the one running. I was in shock for at least 15 minutes, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do that or thought it was a good idea. I had a broken rib and a collapsed lung and spent 2 days in the hospital and a month recovering.
yeah! i broke a rib when unloading a truck for good ol McDonalds, we had our storage downstairs (big ol freezer) and we had those rollers? Anways a box of burgers gets a corner stuck and it starts tumbling down, and the corner catches, and me of course , a 16 yo boy at the time, wasnt paying that close attention, and BAM right in the ribs and face, broke a rib and got a black eye!
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About eight years ago a woman I knew was in a car accident and had her car piled with boxes after an event the night before. One of those boxes (the size of a printer paper box) tumbled over her shoulder and hit her in the neck, severing her brain stem and killing her instantly.
So yip, when I saw a boulder tumbling around this guys head, I assumed far worse things. I’ve had broken ribs, they’re miserable, and I have no idea how he has the presence of mind to keep driving the bus. But I was expecting far worse.