My dad always told me when I was first learning how to drive, that I will get into an accident one day if it is my fault or not. I never believed him, I always thought, “ everyone gets into an accident, what’s the big deal.” I never thought my first car accident would be only two weeks after getting my new car.
I remember the day like it was yesterday. My mother called me and told me to pick my sister up from her job. I had it all panned out, I was going to pick my sister up, drop her off at her apartment, pick up a friend, and go to the football game. It was Friday, October 3rd, 2014 at 5:30pm, the game that I really wanted to watch it was Shoemaker vs Ellison. It was nice and sunny outside, the perfect day to watch football without a jacket. On the way to picking up my sister my plans for the day had changed. I was driving down Stanchuler Loop, and was approaching the intersection between Elms Rd and Stanchuler Loop, about to go through the intersection, I realized that there was a pickup truck about to turn left while I was going through the light at about 40 mph. It happened so fast I wasn’t able to press on my breaks , causing us to crash in the middle of the busy intersection. …show more content…
Soon after hanging up with my mom, the passengers in the other car and I got out of our cars to assess the damage on the cars, and exchange our information with each other for our insurance. Standing outside our cars you could hear everyone yelling about how we should move our cars out of the road, and how we should think about other people before crashing in the middle of a busy
I remember the day like it was yesterday. My mother called me and told me to pick my sister up from her job. I had it all panned out, I was going to pick my sister up, drop her off at her apartment, pick up a friend, and go to the football game. It was Friday, October 3rd, 2014 at 5:30pm, the game that I really wanted to watch it was Shoemaker vs Ellison. It was nice and sunny outside, the perfect day to watch football without a jacket. On the way to picking up my sister my plans for the day had changed. I was driving down Stanchuler Loop, and was approaching the intersection between Elms Rd and Stanchuler Loop, about to go through the intersection, I realized that there was a pickup truck about to turn left while I was going through the light at about 40 mph. It happened so fast I wasn’t able to press on my breaks , causing us to crash in the middle of the busy intersection. …show more content…
Soon after hanging up with my mom, the passengers in the other car and I got out of our cars to assess the damage on the cars, and exchange our information with each other for our insurance. Standing outside our cars you could hear everyone yelling about how we should move our cars out of the road, and how we should think about other people before crashing in the middle of a busy