True story |
| Many people drive when they have used drugs or alcohol. A lot of
accidents happen. This is a story about a person who was involved in a car accident caused
by another driver. "It was a Sunday in the beginning of October. My family, my cousin's family and I were on our way to have dinner with my grandmother. In our car there was just me, my father and my mother, because my cousin wanted my sister to go with them. After we had passed a roundabout a woman collided with our car. Half her front against ours. My father died. He had his seatbelt on but the engine was pressed into his side of the car. My mother also had her seatbelt on. She "only" got her breastbone pushed in, splinters of glass, concussion of the brain, a shock and a gash on her lower shin. I, who was sitting in the middle of the backseat to be able to hear what my parents were talking about, was slung into the instrument panel with my head. Because of that my teeth smashed into pieces. My left foot got wedged under the front seat, which slowed down my speed, but my foot was torn apart and the ligament broke. I also broke my left wrist and my left collarbone. The car moved another 50 meters before it stopped. My uncle ran over to our car and then he saw that I desperately tried to breathe, because my tongue had fallen down into my throat. He had to bend my jaws apart to get my tongue out of my throat so I could be able to breathe again. If he had not been there I would have gone the same way as my father. When the fire brigade arrived, they cut us out of the car, and we were transported to the hospital. I was unconscious for about a month and had to lie in a respirator." Today the person has a handicap, a skull injury, which makes him walk and talk a bit different than other people do. That has caused him a lot of problems. Source: Riksförbundet för Trafik och Polioskadade, Allting blev så annorlunda, (1996), Stockholm. |