Wear your seatbelt!

[Stan Steliga]

Thanks to him wearing his seatbelt and the airbag, my son walked away from this with a scratch on one knuckle last night.

Another car was involved. Nobody hurt - amazingly.

[dbear]

thank god for that.

[pram]

Praise God.

[reyn]

Stan, I'm so glad to hear that your son escaped serious injury in that accident. He was indeed fortunate.

My car accident nightmare:

I, myself, was involved in a serious one (that was not my fault) back in December 2003, and sustained several injuries even though I was wearing my seat belt. As a matter of fact, my sternum was cracked as a result.

It's amazing how one's body is moved around. Both of my knees were banged up bad, in addition to several other areas.

Fortunately, all this stuff healed up. Our public provincial insurance company declared the other party 100% at fault for causing the accident by turning left in front of me when unsafe to do so, and subsequently was given no compensation for their injuries, which were more minor than mine.

That didn't stop that person from suing me civilly though. Fortunately again, because I wasn't at fault, the insurance company (part of my coverage) hired a great lawyer on my behalf at no cost.

Also, unbeknown to me, I had a terrific witness in a car in the lane next to me, which gave the same version of events as I did.

Where I stand at this point (yes, this is still an active lawsuit even now!) is that we've just had the "Examination for Discovery" part of this case, and it's looking extremely well for me. As a matter of fact, my lawyer is hoping that the other party will now drop the case. If not, I'm looking at 2009 for when a trial can be held.

The wheels of justice grind extremely slowly.

Even if the other party drops the case at this point, my lawyer says that they will become responsible for at least $6000 CDN in costs encurred up to this point. Can you spell "nuts"? It is a very weak case, but still they have persisted.

I hope none of this sort of thing happens to your son.

[beck15]

i'm very glad to hear that ur son is alright stan.

[Johnny5]

Good Advice!!!

I am a firefighter in England and have been to many road traffic collisions, some of them fatal.

Most of the time when people die as a result of a crash, it's due to not wearing a seatbelt.

p.s. I'm glad to hear your son was unharmed Stan.

[Stan Steliga]

Thanks everyone.

And to Johnny5 - I can imagine that there are a lot of accidents in England. Everyone's driving on the wrong side of the road there!!!

But seriously, the police and firemen that arrived on the scene were very appreciated by me and my family. Thank you for what you do daily Johnny5.

[Johnny5]

Thanks for the appreciation

[mugley]

good deal stan, very glad to hear he is all right, to add to what you are saying when i was 13 i was in a car wreck and didn't have a seat belt on, ( this was1969 and they weren't even in the older cars) i went thru the windshield, got over 500 stitches in my face, plus wound having plastic surgery several times, my jugular vein was exposed from the cuts, the doc said my neck should have broke from the way i hit the windshield, plus a cut that goes across my eyelid but never touched my eye, and other things,so yeah were your seatbelts

[mugley]

reyn said:

Stan, I'm so glad to hear that your son escaped serious injury in that accident. He was indeed fortunate.

My car accident nightmare:

I, myself, was involved in a serious one (that was not my fault) back in December 2003, and sustained several injuries even though I was wearing my seat belt. As a matter of fact, my sternum was cracked as a result.

It's amazing how one's body is moved around. Both of my knees were banged up bad, in addition to several other areas.

Fortunately, all this stuff healed up. Our public provincial insurance company declared the other party 100% at fault for causing the accident by turning left in front of me when unsafe to do so, and subsequently was given no compensation for their injuries, which were more minor than mine.

That didn't stop that person from suing me civilly though. Fortunately again, because I wasn't at fault, the insurance company (part of my coverage) hired a great lawyer on my behalf at no cost.

Also, unbeknown to me, I had a terrific witness in a car in the lane next to me, which gave the same version of events as I did.

Where I stand at this point (yes, this is still an active lawsuit even now!) is that we've just had the "Examination for Discovery" part of this case, and it's looking extremely well for me. As a matter of fact, my lawyer is hoping that the other party will now drop the case. If not, I'm looking at 2009 for when a trial can be held.

The wheels of justice grind extremely slowly.

Even if the other party drops the case at this point, my lawyer says that they will become responsible for at least $6000 CDN in costs encurred up to this point. Can you spell "nuts"? It is a very weak case, but still they have persisted.

I hope none of this sort of thing happens to your son.

afriend of mine who is a trucker or was, was invovled in accident where a drunk slammed into the back of his rig, while he was sitting at a stop light, the drunk was killed as was a 17 year old boy who was with the drunk, he is being sued because he was 15 mins out of his logs, the trucker was going home and about 20 miles from home, anyway because he had driven for 15 mins longer than he was supposed too, instead of shutting down for 8 hours, he has lost his truck, sold his home to pay legal bills and still might wind up in prison, and the only way he contributed to an accident was being there