Well today was what I would call a very bad day. My wife left this morning to go grocery shopping and to run a few errands. I receive a cell phone call from at approx. 10:20am crying telling me that she has been in a bad wreck. Some A$$hat did not stop at a red light and hit her from behind, twice!
She was on a forty-five mile an hour road and was coming to a stop at a red light in the middle lane when this jerk hit her from behind pushing her into a Chrysler Pacifica which she clipped on the left rear corner. She went into the left lane (four lane divided highway) and after going about forty feet he hit her again driving her into the left turn lane and causing her to hit a Ford Thunderbird in the drivers door at the door/fender.
Now this guy was driving a Land Rover Discovery and told the officer he was going approx thirty-five miles an hour. The police and the tow truck driver estimate his speed to be in excess of fifty miles an hour to do this much damage. He also told the Officer that he did not know what happened and he was talking to his passenger at the time of the wreck.
So I arrive on the scene twenty-five minutes after the wreck to see this carnage of four vehicles and my 2001 Toyota Avalon XLS in a mangled mess and my wife in the ambulance strapped to a board with her head immobilized to be taken to a trauma center.
A little history on the car. This is the nicest car that we have ever owned, when my daughter was born we made the decision for her to quit her job as a Rehab Teacher for the Blind and stay home with my daughter until she went to school. This decision put us between a rock and a hard place for many years and we still have never caught up but I would do the same thing again. My daughter is a very polite, well behaved, secure young woman and her mom being there made the difference. We bought this car in June and it was a one owner garage kept with 63,000 miles and looked like it just rolled off the assembly line. It has every bell and whistle and the older lady that owned it didn't even crease the leather seats from her light weight. This car was also a Certified Pre-Owned Toyota and really impressed me. There wasn't even corrosion on the wire terminal where the negative wire from the battery is attached to the motor casing. my wife searched for six months to find this car and she really loved it.
So they took my wife to the trauma center for multiple x-rays as my wife has some fused vertebrae in her neck/back. Thank God all the x-rays came back good but she is pretty banged up and is in a lot of pain but she is alive and that is all that matters. Cars can be replaced but with wife/friend of twenty-seven years can not.
So here are a couple of pictures of what the car looks like now...
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Originally Posted by Frisch
my wife's system now! 
I Feel really Good now!
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