Feeling very lucky to be alive

zzzLazyDaisy

We don't all come back from short a trip to the beach with our children to find our car mangled beyond recognition.

And yes, you are making light of Marisco's experience.

azzabazza

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

We don't all come back from short a trip to the beach with our children to find our car mangled beyond recognition.

And yes, you are making light of Marisco's experience.

Well said zzzLazyDaisy

Tiddlywinks

I'm sorry to hear about your car... and I know it is normal to go over the 'what ifs' but you need to process this event and see it for what it really is.

You weren't hurt... no-one else was hurt.

Metal boxes can be replaced.

I'm sure it was shocking but did you really need treatment for 'shock' which is a serious medical condition?

I know this is a good place to come and vent and share and I'm sure you know this but... please be low key and less dramatic with your children otherwise they might develop unnecessary fears as a result of your emotions.

geoffky

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I'm sorry to hear about your car... and I know it is normal to go over the 'what ifs' but you need to process this event and see it for what it really is.

You weren't hurt... no-one else was hurt.

Metal boxes can be replaced.

I'm sure it was shocking but did you really need treatment for 'shock' which is a serious medical condition?

I know this is a good place to come and vent and share and I'm sure you know this but... please be low key and less dramatic with your children otherwise they might develop unnecessary fears as a result of your emotions.

Revenge is a dish best served cold....You must of wet yourself when you saw this post..........But she only thanked the post that posted a few home truths..

Sneezy

So glad you are all okay

We had a similar experience last year - my sister nearly died after some speeding idiot (there are better words for him) crashed into the traffic island she was stood on - the car flipped over onto its roof it was going that fast.

The traffic officer who dealt with everything afterwards said that if my sister had been stood an inch either side of where she was or been a little bit shorter she would have died. The 'what ifs' still play on my mind (particularly as it was me who sent her to the shop )

Gavin83

This sort of situation has happened twice to me. First time was when we were considering booking a flight to 2 different destinations a week later. We looked into the flight costs/times etc and made our choice. It turns out the plane we would have booked for the other destination crashed badly while landing.

Another time there was a fatal stabbing in my town. I realised when they gave the date and time I'd literally been in the exact spot it happened about 10 mins before.

It's quite scary stuff. I guess it just shows you go when its your time to go.

lostinrates

It is terrifying, even when no harm to people is done.

My husband was in a rollover in the ice three years ago, with one of our dogs. Miraculously, thanks to a safe car and sedate driving, both walked away unscathed, but I (more than either him or the dog) wasterrified about him in a car for some time.

Practically, he suggested we BOTH have some skid pan training at some point in the future (despite both knowing what to do and driving a four wheel drive, the idea being that we both get confidence in each others skill. Sadly we have n't been ale to do that yet, but still both want to!

Marisco, I am so glad you and your boys were safe. I hope you enjoy your summer holiday and that the inevitable frustrations this will lead to with finding a replacement car and dealing with insurers etc etc will feel easier in the perspective of how awful things could have been. Thank goodness. Hope you feel better soon.

mcja

Marisco, are the kids ok? Regardless of the effect they saw it all have on you, I assume they are old enough to realise the mangled mess was your car.

Vent away on here, you help enough people to be allowed.

I know we all pass within metres, sometimes cms, of death some days but its like if a tree fell in your kitchen while you drank a cuppa in the lounge...2 mins before you were making that brew, that's too close for comfort. So was this. 10 mins with kids is a "mum I need a wee", oops, I forgot suncream/xxxx hat/a lost ds game. Its nothing.

pink_princess

I'm glad your all ok Marisco x

Times like those remind us how precious life really is.

meritaten

Marisco - I can understand you going into shock - people don't realise that physical shock can take place after a traumatic shock. and you had a doozy of a shock when the car you left in perfect health was destroyed. I can imagine what went through your mind.........and it isn't pleasant. it will fade though hun, in time and when you have talked enough about it and the realisation that you are all OK, and may even feel the angels were smiling on you today! it was a 'freak' accident and you cannot anticipate those!