I Was In A Car Acident

Well, I was not actually driving, but I was in the passenger seat which made it plenty scary for me.

Emily and I were in Fairfax, Virginia on our way to a friend’s party. Emily was driving her 2002 Prius and looking for the correct street to turn on when we went over the top of a hill and into the middle of an intersection where a red Ford Explorer was making a turn.

Emily tried to swerve out of the way, but we only saw it at the very last second. So, it was a midly serious impact, I would say. Both of our airbags deployed, and I was rocked around quite a bit (the Explorer hit on my side of the car), but, luckily, no one was seriously hurt.

It was all very scary, I thought, but Emily handled it amazingly well. She said she had seen so many worse accidents as an EMT for the Charlottesville Rescue Squad that she was a little desensitized. But eventually the reality set in that her little Prius that she loved so much was gone. Plus, there is always that feeling of “Stupid! I wish I hadn’t done that!” which anyone who has been in any kind of fender-bender can relate to.

We have not gotten the final word from the insurance company yet, but we expect the carto be totaled since most of the front end of the car was messed up pretty bad. Not surprisingly, the Explorer didn’t look so bad.

On a lighter note, Emily started Medical School today (yay!). I’m so proud of her. She is going to school in Richmond while I am still in Charlottesville, so now having only one carmakes things a little more difficult.

I drove her in this morning, and will pick her up at the end of the week so she can come home. We are only about an hour away, so it is not that bad and we realize we are pretty lucky to be able to go to school so close to each other, but it is still hard to be apart.

But she will probably get more work done without me around always trying to get her to watch some boring movie that I got from Netflix.

Good luck, sweetie!