On Saturday, July 15th, 2017 I was hit by a car. People find this surprising. And I can’t blame them. Nobody ever pictured me getting hit by a car. I can’t say that I was unlucky because the car was only going 10 miles per hour and it stopped immediately. There was no damage done to me that couldn’t be fixed. Apparently, getting hit by a car is not incredibly uncommon, studies show that on average, a pedestrian is injured every 7 minutes and studies estimate that there is a pedestrian fatality every 2 hours. Unlike the number of car crashes in the nation, the number of pedestrian fatalities has climbed from 11% to 15%. In 2012 alone an estimated 76,000 pedestrians were injured. There were 4743 pedestrian fatalities in 2012. But I was still …show more content…
When we started to skim the outskirts I started to feel sick. I asked my mom if I could walk home. Without a second thought, she let me go. I had walked the same route a hundred times in the past. I got to the intersection. I pressed the button, I waited. When the walk sign turned on I started to walk across the crosswalk. I had not gotten more than a few steps before the first car in the left turn lane barreled through the intersection. It did not hit me. The second car in the left turn lane barreled through the intersection, just like the first. Again, it did not hit me. The third car was waiting. The walk sign had just started flashing. I did not want to wait for the next cycle. I continued to walk across the …show more content…
I watched everything pass from the windows in the back. The people on the ambulance are nice. They take my blood pressure, heart rate, ask me if anything hurts and listen to my breathing. When we get to the ER they roll the stretcher inside and through the ER to a room. The ICU nurse is still with me, although the ambulance doctors left as suddenly as they came. The ambulance people leave after they get me out of the stretcher and into a bed but are quickly replaced by ER nurses. One of them takes my neck brace off because I don’t need it. The she asks me to look at the chart on the wall and rate my pain. I say two because it looked like a step up from normal, but not too far away for anyone to worry. Soon they leave and another nurse comes in and asks my name, age, and date of birth, then tells me to press a button if I need anything then she waltzes out in a blur. After everyone but the ICU nurse from the intersection leaves. I wait another 5 minutes before my mom comes in with a woman police officer in tow. The ICU introduces herself, then leaves. The cop says that she will sort out what happened and write the official police document and asks me to tell her exactly what happened. After I tell her what happens, she leaves and it’s just me and my mom. After waiting 15 minutes the doctor comes in and asks questions and let me go with a note saying to use Benadryl for the next twenty-four hours and then to start
I was shaking when we went inside--- I absolutely hate the doctors office! There was only one people waiting to be seen; with a face mask on hoping not to spread the possible air borne disease, and the others who were just sitting there waiting for perhaps friends or family members to come out. They checked me in and gave me a madatory blue bracelet to wear. In no time I was rushed in a wheel chair to the CAT scan machine. I was alone in the room which was over fifteen minutes sitting inside a large machine with flourescent lights and heat directly over my head. Slowly the lady wheeled me back to my checked in room. The doctor waiting with instant news, he announced I had no internal bleeding in my head which was the only good news I would be getting that day. The nurses and doctors came to the conclusion that I had a concussion. It sure felt like
Once we were done with paper work, we went back to the labor and delivery unit where we suited up. We wore medical booties, face masks, and nurse caps. Once the patient was ready to go into the OR, she first had to meet with the anesthesiologist to fill out more paper work. After meeting with the anesthesiologist, we all went into the OR. There was a student nurse, two anesthesiologists, the patient, and two RN nurses. While the student nurse was preparing the OR, the patient was getting an epidur...
"Selena Gibson" the nurse called out after opening the closed door. I stood up and quickly moved forward toward the nurse. Stepping through the door I was ask to turn to the right and go down the hallway. Walking down the long stretch dragging my feet along the way I was scared to find out what the doctor was going to say. Turning to the left the room looked impersonal and cold. I was asked to seat in the chair and wait till the doctor came in with the results.
When they got me down there I fell asleep again, I woke up about another hour later again the nurse was in there waiting for me to wake up just to see how I was feeling. When she left I looked over to my parents and started talking to them, then I turned my head the other way and I saw my mom. I was really happy that she was there because I do not see her much. I talked to her for a little bit, then laid back down. I realized that I was in good hands and I would be taken care of, and that was my new years. So thanks for my parents looking after me at the hospital and thanks for the hospitals for taking care of me and getting me fixed up. The morale of this story for me is if I feel like I am going to fall while snowboarding and getting really good air bring a video
As she was stopped, there were two cars coming from the left, the direction we were headed. “Mom, those two cars are turning right. We can go because they won’t intersect us.” I spoke up, being the backseat driver that I am. One car turned.
Personal injury solicitors warn that claiming compensation can be difficult when pedestrians are injured after stepping out into the path of an oncoming car, as road traffic accident claims courts will determine that the pedestrian behaved in a negligent fashion and that the driver could not have reasonably been expected to have stopped in time to avoid the collision. It is therefore the responsibility of pedestrians, motorists, schools and parents to ensure children are safe when walking to and from school in the darker months. The following tips could help to reduce the volume of road traffic accident claims and pedestrian collisions: - Pedestrians must look carefully before stepping out into the road. This is still the case when using a pedestrian crossing - inattentive drivers could drive through the red light and collide with people who are crossing the road.
...e to be updated to consider who stopped first and has enough time passed to try and go across the intersection. In the event that all 4 cars at the intersection are self-driving cars, then it may be easier to handle this situation because the cars could have the ability to communicate with each other and decide faster.
Out of all those crashes, 26,738 people were injured and 281 people were killed. It was mathematically figured out that a crash happens every eight minutes in the year 2016. Since crashes are so common, it is very important to know what to do when you are involved in one... whether you cause it or you were the victim.
A precautious individual, I began to pedal at a slightly increased rate. Still I didn't feel as though I was in any real danger, until the car flew past me, grazing my arm. An excessant shriek erupted from the car as it grinded to a halt at the coming stop sign. Then, to my greatest horror the white lights on the rear of the car ignited......the car was going in reverse.
One of the men smiles and assures me everything will be ok. I start to worry knowing when emergency crew say that something truly is wrong. While the man was speaking, the other slipped out of my sight and reappeared with a sharp needle. I wanted to tell of my fear of needles, but before I could say anything. The man injected the big needle and clear like substance into my body.
I looked over at Ami and wiped away some stagnant tears with the backside of my wrist, but she said nothing. The nurse came back in holding a white hospital band which she fastened to my left wrist. Then finally introduced herself to me as Katie.
When we reached the parking lot there were a few groups of people still around. There were parents getting into their cars and one big group of girls. I continued on to run straight to the car without stopping to talk or look back. I was the first to reach the car. I looked back to my friends to notice some of the girls I was with stopped to tell our other friends what had just happened.
I always hear those old sayings. In the course of one day I can hear them about everything from retraining old dogs to getting up early. I think they make sense and I even ponder on some of them, but I never really thought one might mean as much to me, or become as realistic as it has become in my life. The clichés about telling those you love, how you feel, before it is too late and the ones about living every day like it is your last have an all new meaning to me.
Oh my God! TJ!“ It was just my mom.She was crying and calling my name again and again.I was so embarrassed and disappointed of my self.I had let her down. After, two of the EMT guys put us on an ambulance. Finally,we made our way to the hospital. My friend john and me were sent in palo alto medical center. It took us about fifteen minute to get there. My friend john was alright. He had a couple of stitches in his head and his arm. He got relieved after a couple of tests but, I was severely injured. I was lying on a hospital bed and thinking what I would have done in the past. Cause this terrible accident happened to me. I was sent to el camino hospital, where I went to the operation theater for my hipbones surgery.The doctor told me after surgery that my hipbones was fractured the reason they had to put a plate in hipbones to stay together.Although, my left arm was also fractured the reason I could not feel my arm. After surgery, they took me to the other room and gave me a couple of injections. Momentarily, I went to sleep. I woke up in the next day and thinking hopefully it was just a dream,but it’s not. I opened my eyes and saw a couple of relative looking me like a stranger. My dad came over my bed and gave me a hug and I literally started crying after thinking about the accident. I could not believe after a massive car accident I was still alive. Doctors kept in hospital couple of