Car Accident

I was in 6th grade in the year 2014, when I experienced a car accident that changed my family’s lives forever. My grandmother was picking me up from after school care one Tuesday afternoon. I never was able to sit in the front seat but, that day I asked out of hope to get a yes THIS time and to my surprise, the answer was a yes. I hopped in the passenger seat next to my grandmother with such excitement. Not soon after we left the school we approached a stoplight. We were talking about what homework I had to do that day and how school went for me.

The light turned green and the next thing I know I hear a scream coming from my grandmother’s throat and BOOM the crash took place. The person that hit us was very sick and passed out at the wheel making him speed through the intersection we were passing through. The airbags blew up and my grandmother was laying down with her eyes closed next to me. I looked around for about five seconds before started to realize what was going on at the moment. I didn’t feel any injuries on me but, that was probably due to the amount of adrenaline I had pumping through my veins at the time.

I tapped my grandmother and she swiftly jumped up and looked at me in my eyes for a straight two minutes. I was asking her over and over, “Are you okay?” “Are you okay?!”. That was the longest and scariest two minutes of my life because she wasn’t responding. After me constantly asking if she was alright she finally let out a bawling cry like she was hurting or something. I tried to stay calm but, it was hard to see her in that state. I started tearing up and saying, “It’s okay.” “We’re okay.” Then that’s when a police officer had come around and tried to take me away from the scene by getting me out of the car. I think that’s when it all kind of clicked for me because I started freaking out. After all, they weren’t letting me see if my grandmother was okay. My afterschool care teacher came out to comfort me and she told me it was going to be okay. That’s when I saw my grandmother strapped down onto an emergency board so they were able to put her into the ambulance truck. We rushed to the hospital. I still felt no type of pain because I was so shocked and anxious. I was worried that my grandmother wasn’t okay. Soon after I begin to feel a sharp pain in my back and neck. The doctors diagnosed me with whiplash and my grandmother with a concussion that she deals with to this day in 2020. It has caused her to not be able to do much of anything and I have major back, joint, and neck problems from the accident.

This was a very traumatizing experience for me because not only did the wreck affect my body and my grandmother it also affected my ability to be inside of a car. I just recently got over the anxiety I had driving myself. I am currently seventeen years old. I have finally accomplished a big hurdle in my life and I received my drivers permit. I think this experience helped me be a more careful driver as a whole. It makes me more aware of my surroundings while I drive. Which can benefit me, in the long run, to prevent accidents from happening.