So, I got in a car accident on Monday. I am okay but what a great way to start a week...huh? Especially conference and Valentine's Week....so busy at school!
The roads were fine on my way to work Monday morning but I hit an icy patch and swerved out of control, did a 180 and ended up in a ditch on the other side of the road. Luckily, there was no on-coming traffic at the time! I was okay but my car was deep in the snow. I was so surprised because I felt like the ice had come out of no where (little did I know there was another accident about a block ahead just around the corned and that there would be more cars in the ditch...but that comes later in the story).
Once I calmed down, I called Erik. He said he would come and meet me to check things out and give me a ride to work if I wanted. Then I called AAA. They were very helpful and were getting me set up with a tow when the police and Erik arrived. I was glad to have the police there because that 2-3 block stretch was very icy and cars were all over the place, swerving and out of control like I was. I was so afraid I would get hit again.
The police officer said my car was far enough off the road and in the ditch that we could leave it until the tow came. So, Erik started to drive me to work. Once we got to Prescott, the AAA operator told me one of us would need to be with the car when the tow truck came (duh...but we didn't' think of it).....so Erik drove us back to my car and we decided I was calmed down enough to drive to work. We were coming back up to my car and the accident site when we noticed the police officer was back again, along with some other cars that had gone in the ditch (5 cars total now in the ditch with in about a block of each other.....BAD SPOT!). We also then noticed that one of the other cars had hit my car....bad. They had spun out the same way I did and hit the back and driver's side back door. My car did not look pretty. We were SOOOO happy that we had not been at the car when that had happened.
Erik stayed to work things out at my car and I drove his to work. All in all I felt okay but did have some back pain on Monday. It has since gone away and I feel great. My car ended up getting towed into Prescott and Erik was able to get a rental that will be reimbursed by our insurance :)
We found out last night that my car is being totaled out and we will need to get a new one. Just waiting now to see about insurance. The other person who hit me is 100% liable.
What a week it's been and it's only Wednesday!
