wgeo
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 2, 2011
We were driving north coming up to an intersection. We had the green light and the car ahead of us entered the intersection and was hit from the right by a car that ran the red. Our light had been green for awhile, other cars had already gone through.
It was pretty bad, the car ahead of us spun around and the front end was pretty smashed. A young mom was driving with a 4? year old girl. They were able to get out okay but were pretty upset, and the mom really seemed like she was in shock.
The other driver's car was completely crumpled in front, and it flew backwards after impact and hit a truck that was stopped at the light, and tore both of her back tires off. She was talking/crying and stayed in her car until the EMT's showed up. My husband stayed with her but said she wasn't communicating well.
I talked to the police at the scene and then again another one called to take my full statement. After he took it and verified that he could list me as a witness in the police report, he said "good well that corroborates what we know so you probably won't be called anymore, but it's always a possibility" I said that was fine and asked if other accounts matched mine. He said that the driver that ran the red admitted that she saw the light was red, got scared and decided that it would be better to try to gun it and beat the other car because she didn't think she could brake in time.
Wow - it got me thinking. How do you know what split section reaction you would make? I think I would just slam on the brakes as hard as possible and maybe jerk my steering wheel to the side - but in a split second would I think that clearly? (of course not discussing the fact that she was distracted and didn't slow down when approaching the red - which is a slightly different topic)
It was pretty bad, the car ahead of us spun around and the front end was pretty smashed. A young mom was driving with a 4? year old girl. They were able to get out okay but were pretty upset, and the mom really seemed like she was in shock.
The other driver's car was completely crumpled in front, and it flew backwards after impact and hit a truck that was stopped at the light, and tore both of her back tires off. She was talking/crying and stayed in her car until the EMT's showed up. My husband stayed with her but said she wasn't communicating well.
I talked to the police at the scene and then again another one called to take my full statement. After he took it and verified that he could list me as a witness in the police report, he said "good well that corroborates what we know so you probably won't be called anymore, but it's always a possibility" I said that was fine and asked if other accounts matched mine. He said that the driver that ran the red admitted that she saw the light was red, got scared and decided that it would be better to try to gun it and beat the other car because she didn't think she could brake in time.
Wow - it got me thinking. How do you know what split section reaction you would make? I think I would just slam on the brakes as hard as possible and maybe jerk my steering wheel to the side - but in a split second would I think that clearly? (of course not discussing the fact that she was distracted and didn't slow down when approaching the red - which is a slightly different topic)