The day a roadsign post saved my life (quite literally!)
Yesterday, I was walking to town for my lunch break. I was at an intersection red light , waiting to cross the road to St Stephens Green when I witnessed a collision between an ambulance and a car. The ambulance hit the back side of the car, and from the strength of the impact, the car was jerked aside and started spinning towards me. All I remember then is looking at that car coming my way and thinking "Oh fuck." A quarter of a second later, the car hit the roadsign post that was a few inches away from me, the post bent and fell on my right forearm. The car was stopped.
Now, the good thing in being in an accident involving an ambulance is that the paramedics are already there, and I was surrounded within a few seconds - the pole falling on my arm had actually been quite painful, and it obviously showed on my face. A huge lunchtime-in-city-centre crowd started gathering, but everybody involved in the accident (i.e. ambulance, the car driver and myself) were fine, although in shock. Despite the shock and the pain on my forearm, I was feeling OK but the paramedics insisted on driving me to St James's hospital for an X-ray. The Gardai made sure I was in good hands and let me go with the ambulance. So that was the end of my working day, and I spent the afternoon in the A&E, experiencing the joy of Irish hospitals for the first time.... and from what I've seen it's surprisingly not worse than anywhere else. So my arm is not broken, just damaged tissue and strain which should be resolved within a few days/weeks.
I just can't believe how lucky I was this roadsign was there. If it hadn't been for it, the car would have hit me, and I probably wouldn't have got away with it so easily. It hit me when the lady in the ambulance told me "you know, that pole there probably saved your life". I've been thinking about it ever since.
Brought to you by Sandrine @ 8:57 am
4 Comments:
Wow, that sure is a shock...
I'm glad to read you're OK, you should probably thank the irish DDE !
tu l'as échappé belle ! ta mère en est toute retournée ( elle a même dit "putain!" c'est tout dire ! )
as tu un arrêt de travail ? soigne toi bien et tiens nous au courant !
bisous
Wow t'as eu de la chance. Entre l'arbre qui tombe sur ta place de parking et l'accident, on peut dire que tu as le cul bordé de nouilles. Prend un ticket d'Euro million ! J'ai pas trop compris ce qui est tombé sur ton bras "the pole" (?) Mais bon heureusement ca n'a pas l'air trop grave
en fait c'est un poteau qui m'est tombe dessus.
Non, j'ai pas eu d'arret de travail, je suis retournee au bureau le lendemain, j'ai un gros bandage au bras, mais rien de mechant... j'ai eu un bol enorme!
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