Lucky you didn't have a passenger; two neighbors (both 16) of mine piled into a car (mom's or dad's Lexus ES) with a bunch of friends with a new 16 yr old (female, but that probably doesn't matter as much as what I suspect they were doing/smoking) driver to go to a party less than 5 minutes away. She made the same left turn Mr E did and they got broadsided, probably at about 45-50 mph. Turns out my neighbor was at the point of impact-dead on arrival at the hospital; another neighbor in a coma with brain damage. Chicago has had like 5 motorcycle deaths in September. I used to work at a hospital that saw a lot of car accident victims--broken necks, broken pelvises, shattered organs. Because of the way they design cars now to decrease the chance of a major chest injury or death, accidents where the motor used to come into the cabin and kill you now let you live, but at the expense of shattering and rearranging most of the bones in your foot and ankle--some real nasty x-rays. I remember one night that housekeeping refused to mop of the blood in the CT scanner, because there was just too much, along with a trail leading to the OR. Until you see this stuff a lot, you feel invincible. It can happen to anyone. So, my confession: driving back from the Cubs game in Milwaukee with my 10 year old son, top down, 100 mph (very briefly) on the tristate. I've driven 100-110, but only when there is no one on the road. You come up on people so fast, that if they don't realize how fast you're going (why would they?), they could change lanes in front of you with no time to react.
Mr E, glad you're both ok. Let us know the final cost and how much deep damage.
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