The Wreck

Well, if a wreck isn’t bloggable I don’t know what is. 

This evening we were out shopping.  I took the girls to Justice at Blakeney to use up a coupon that was expiring today.  We then decided last minute to pick up some cupcakes for dessert.  We came out of the shopping area and onto a side road to an intersection where our light was red.  We stopped at the light where it soon turned green.  There was a van across the intersection from us planning to cross the intersection and we stayed put, waiting to turn left.  Just as the van got halfway through, an SUV came barreling about 40-45 mph from our left, ran the red light and t-boned the van.  It pushed the van over onto the driver’s side and the two of them came barreling towards us.  With a front row seat, I saw it happen and as they came towards us, it really was like slow motion and I remember grabbing Scott’s arm and yelling something like “Oh my gosh, they’re coming.”  The hood of the gray van was like a huge gray wall coming towards us.  In the split second, I prepared myself that they were going to hit and possibly come through the front. Part of me braced to get really hurt in the face.  They did hit but the right front of the van mostly took the brunt and thank goodness they had already impacted once and it wasn’t enough to even move our van much.

As soon as it hit, Lexi was crying.  Scott, with instincts from his job, jumped out and ran to the lady whose van was on its side.  It took me a minute to even move and I jumped out and got the girls out and to the side of the road.  It was like an ants’ nest got kicked as people started jumping out of the cars and from parking lots close by to help.  Scott and another man helped the driver crawl through the top of her car and she was amazingly unharmed.  The driver of the SUV was a mother and she had her teenaged kids with her.  They all were ok except the one girl was crying and seemed to have some pain behind her knee.  The driver didn’t even know what happened and asked if the van lady had run the red light.  I guess she wasn’t paying attention since it had been red long enough for the other car to get halfway through the intersection.

Several people stayed around until fire, medic and police arrived. 

One funny sidebar:

As we were waiting, the people that were parked behind us that were witnesses had their dogs waiting in their car.  Suddenly, their car horn starts beeping and we all look to see their Beagle standing on the horn on the steering wheel in the car.  Everyone in the area laughed, lightening the somber mood.  It got really funny though when the couple went over to stop them and realized the dogs had locked themselves in the car.  The firemen there for the wreck had to use a jimmy to get them in their car.

Lexi calmed down pretty quickly.  I was pretty shaken and got teary when I realized just how much we were all spared.  Emma had a little breakdown while we were waiting.  She needed a hug from Daddy and she was ok.  Thank goodness he was there. Really, I would have been frozen.  Mom came to get us to take us home.  Scott was going to get a ride home with our wrecker but the girls insisted they wouldn’t leave Daddy so we all stayed until our van, which was the last piece of the wreck to leave, was towed away.  None of us are sure if our van will be totaled. It looks pretty bad but you never know.  To be honest, I’d like to see ours fixed up. 

I am just praising God no one was hurt.  As we were waiting we were talking with the witnesses and we all marveled at how “good” it went considering.  God is good whether anyone got hurt or not but I sure am thankful to Him that we aren’t.