Re: [ST] Be careful out there!!!!

["Mike Benzon" <fast87@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

George, sorry to hear about your daughter's accident, I hope she heals soon.
As you stated it sounds like it was clearly the other party's fault,
however, I think Jenny was lucky enough to survive and learn a valuable
lesson about alertness and what not to trust. I was fortunately enough to
survive an accident in my younger years and will never trust someone pulling
up to an intersection I am approaching ever again.
Mike
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "george" <gkeslin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:31 PM
Subject: [ST] Be careful out there!!!!


> I know I'm preaching to the choir but I wanted to just remind you all to
be
> careful out there!
> I was reminded of who ignorant cage drivers are again yesterday. My
> daughter Jenny was riding her Magna to school (she teaches summer school)
> early yesterday morning. Things were going well until some young female
> decided she could beat Jenny across an intersection. She was driving an
> Escort. Jenny was on her way down from an I55 over pass heading east and
> approaching a frontage road when this moron pulled out. Jenny had seen her
> (she was on Jenny's right/south). Jenny had looked at her then looked to
> her left/north to check traffic there. As she turned back to check forward
> and right again, the Escort was right there. She doesn't remember having
> time to grab the brakes so I don't think she got to try to stop.
>
> She hit the car just behind the rear tire and was launched over the bars.
> She landed mostly on her left hip. Luckily my wife and I had not left for
> work yet. We drove separately to the scene. My wife got there first and
> starting attending to Jenny. When I got there about 2 minutes later some
> LEOs & EMTs were already there working on Jenny and taking statements. We
> got a couple of good eyewitnesses (got their names & numbers). A Postal
> worker really helped Jenny out! Her talked to her, called us, called the
> police and called Jenny's school. And then he stayed and comforted her
> until the cavalry arrived.
>
> My wife said that the cage driver admitted to one of the LEOs that she
> thought she could beat Jenny across the intersection. What the rush was
> nobody knows. She would have to wait another 30 seconds? Whoop dee
doo!!!!!
>
> Jenny's still in the hospital. She has a separated pelvis and some
internal
> bleeding. As of this morning the bleeding seems to be subsiding. She spent
> the night in MICU and may get transferred to a regular room later today.
> She was already told she can't finish teaching summer school. All the
> standing required would not help her heal. Speaking of healing, as normal
> she was wearing her leather coat, helmet, and boots. There are a couple of
> divots in the helmet, some good scrapes in her coat and gloves. I truly
> believe that if she wasn't wearing her helmet this email would have a
> completely different tone. She has a couple of bruises but NO road rash!
>
> George
>
>
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