Ow.

It was a dark and stormy night. Around 7:00, Haplo, Asha and I were coming home from take out Chinese. The rain was beating down on the car, making it difficult to see even with the windshield wipers oscillating as fiercely as they could. We stopped to turn onto our street.

Wham! We get hit from behind!

So we were both a lot fuzzy and not sure at all what the proper thing to do was. I got out (in the pouring rain), and went down to the other car. Other people had already stopped and were calling 911. I didn't see the driver of the other car, but one of the people calling had gotten in her car. I got back in our own car and waited for the police.

When the police came, I sat in the back of the police car while he got the other driver. She was Mexican and spoke about as much English as I did Spanish. We got the paperwork out of the way, I kicked the rest of the obliterated bumper off my car, and we went home.

We dropped off the dog, got into some dry clothes, and left in her car to go to the emergency room of the hospital. My shoulder was hurting pretty badly, and she said her neck hurt. I suspected a fracture, and we were worried about soft tissue injuries. By the time we got there, it was around 8pm. We ate our chinese in the emergency room and waited.

By the time we got treated, it was 10pm. In their defense, we were probably just getting bumped by more severe problems. One of the staff told me while I was making my way to the emergency room that she had seen a bad wreck with four ambulances. It seems likely that they were having bigger problems than we were.

We got X-rays, a clean bill of health, and a prescription for pain killers. We went home at 11pm. Asha was supposed to be working on her finals tonight, and helping give an exam early next morning, but both of those have been blown. I've got a business trip tomorrow, but I don't think it'll be that strenuous, so I'm probably going to go. Suckage.

We hurt all over, but I feel like we got out lucky. I'm profoundly grateful for my little Celica, which took a rear-end hit at about 45 mph and left us without a scratch. The other car was completely totalled - the hood was crumpled up almost to the windshield. The material in our bumper was strewn about 50 feet down the road.

Haplo is entirely unharmed, and very put out about not getting his evening walk.

05/12/2006 - BLake: Ouch, glad to hear you all are ok.

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