I was coming back from a neighboring town tonight (live in a rural area) and drove by an accident scene on the highway. At the time, there were three cop cars there. I heard the accident scene was only about an hour-old at that time. This usually wouldn't bother me, but I went thru a bad car crash four and a half months ago!!

And the similarities were enough to make my heart almost stop!!!!! This one looked eerily similar to my car crash, as the vehicle in the ditch had a smashed in back-end like mine did! And it was less than two miles from my car crash location - on the same highway! I couldn’t see too much as it was dark and had been for about two hours.

I haven’t talked much about the ‘trauma’ side of my car crash, mainly just all the injuries I had / have from it. But that first week or two was extremely rough because it seemed like every time I closed my eyes, I could see myself back in my car! (and I’m a ‘visual’ person - I ‘see’ images or pictures in my head like a movie) A little info on my car crash - I was not moving cuz I didn’t want to make any head/neck/back injuries worse; so I couldn’t look around to see what was happening; they had to use the jaws to pry my door open just to get me out; and I was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital, where I spent almost four hours in the ER.

So I could ‘envision’ being back in my car, seeing the dash in front of me and my shoe on the floor (it was knocked off by the force of the impact). When I close my eyes, I can still see that!!

And now having driven by this similar accident scene tonight… I’m nervous that all that is gonna happen again. I don’t want to call them nightmares, but it may be a really challenging night for me tonight!! I was rear-ended by some idiot not paying attention. And even now at four and a half months later, I still somewhat freak-out (almost panic) when cars are behind me! My heart almost stops and many times, I pull off into the right-turn lane just so they can go around me, and then I drive straight (do not turn) and continue on my way. And tonight will only make that worse.

how the he** do people get thru sh** like this???

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reply: Car Accident? 02-08-2016, 11:39 PM
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it's a scary feeling, one that's tough to get rid of. I was just in a bad car crash four months ago. some distracted idiot rear-ended me going 60mph when I was stopped (claims he never saw me)! I had/have lots of injuries, head to toe. I was driving again a few days later, but the fear is still there. For me, there is no logic to this car crash accident that I can rap my head around - the weather was fine and roads were dry - just can't figure out why it happened. So even now, the fear I feel when a car is behind me is almost overwhelming at times, like my heart stops! I almost freak out, hoping and praying that they see me. I've even pulled off into a right-hand turn lane, just so the vehicle could go around me instead of following me. I have no idea if I will ever get over this fear... (and I've been driving for almost seventeen years now)