I got hit by a car today when walking across the street

[monkeydust]

I was crossing at a stoplight and a car that was stopped looked the other way for traffic and then just took off right into me as I was walking across the street at the intersection (she was driving an SUV).

Heh, I kinda flew up in the air and then landed on the road. The lady stopped and was apologizing. She said that she looked the other way and didn't see me.

I've never been hit by a car while walking before so I thought it was kinda interesting. Although now, I'm thinking that every pain that I have is because of the accident (my neck is pretty sore now). I didn't get her name or anything because able to get up and assumed I was fine.

[ALobpreis]

So, how are you now??? Did you get really hurt? Some damage? Or just some scratches and temporary pain?
At least your fingers seem to work rather well still... :D

[volt]

She appologized???? Nice of her to do so...
What a b1tch

I hope you are alright :)

[monkeydust]

Yeah, I feel fine now except for the typical soreness that everybody feels once in awhile. So I'm now attributing every little ache and pain to that now. I doubt that it is really related but I still have that in the back of my mind.

I think I should have gotten here name/address just in case I developed some sort of malady because of it (or I wanted to get some lawyers involved).

[LORD-eX-Bu]

bah, I got hit by some red sportscar, lol, I didn't even see what it was, just saw a flash of red and next thing I know I'm on the street waking up:lol:

a friend of mine's son got hit by a hit and run driver, was in a truck, dragged her 6 year old kid for a bit and he was kinda messed up, recovered and now you can't even tell anything happened.

Thank goodness for the human body, it amazes me how toughly built we are in general:lol:

Glad to hear that you are fine tho, always get the info of the driver. And next time, if cops ever get involved, don't count on them for anything, you want things to get done, you gotta persist and push it yourself. I'm still waiting for a police report for a totalled car of mines so we can file a lawsuit.

[omghi2u]

Probably a soccer mom that can't drive for sh!t...I agree with everyone else. Should've gotten her name/address/insurance info (and a mugshot just in case... :lol: ). Good to know you're allright.

[vampireuk]

I knew it would be a SUV the moment I read this, those soccer moms should be banned from the road. Good to hear you are not too bad:cool:

[Kruno]

Good Luck on your rehab er... I mean recovery. :lol:

What's a soccer mum? I know it doesn't mean she plays soccer. You mean she is a *****?

[SnakeEyes]

Typical soccer mom:
Has (2, 3, 18) kids, at least one of which plays soccer for the local (school, church, sorority house, town team). The mother feels the need to have a large (minivan, SUV, station wagon), and also to volunteer to transport at least (6, 8, 10, 200) kids to and from (practices, games, sorority sex parties).

Dunno about the ***** part. Maybe that's how she became a soccer mom? :p

[vampireuk]

You forgot to add they are always on the phone and never watch the road for more than 5 seconds at a time.

[DaveW]

Originally posted by vampireuk
You forgot to add they are always on the phone and never watch the road for more than 5 seconds at a time.

That is SO true.

[ricercar]

I got t-boned on my bicycle once and thought i was OK. I could move both arms just fine, just achey a bit. However, 8 hours later extreme pain from my dislocated shoulder made me very happy to have written down the vehicle license plate and contact info for the driver.

Another time a guy (who rear-ended me) gave me bogus name and address, so if I had not written down his license plate and vehicle description the cops and my insurance company would have had no recourse. He landed in jail.

ALWAYS get the license plate and physical description of the offending vehicle.

[Ryoko]

possibly my biggest fear while driving is hitting a pedestrian.

just last night, in fact, a black guy in black clothes was walking across the street when it was pitch black out, and there were no street lights. i saw him well before i got to him, but only because i saw a flicker in another car's headlights coming from the other direction. people just need to make sure they aren't walking in front of cars that have the possibility of hitting them. especially since drivers usually are looking for other cars, not people.

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Typical soccer mom:
Has (2, 3, 18) kids, at least one of which plays soccer for the local (school, church, sorority house, town team). The mother feels the need to have a large (minivan, SUV, station wagon), and also to volunteer to transport at least (6, 8, 10, 200) kids to and from (practices, games, sorority sex parties).

Dunno about the ***** part. Maybe that's how she became a soccer mom? :p

Just what the f&ck is a "soccer mom" anyways....'cause I think I might qualify as one, but I don't think I'm quite "typical". :cool:

[Ryoko]

Originally posted by digitalwanderer
Just what the f&ck is a "soccer mom" anyways....'cause I think I might qualify as one, but I don't think I'm quite "typical". :cool:

it's currently unofficial, but it is rumored that most soccer moms have manboobs, so you're not far off :D

[MikeC]

Soccer Mom's are some of the most violent women on this earth. I coached Dave's soccer team when he was six. They were a real rowdy and rough bunch so Dave and I fit right in. We were undefeated a trait that makes Soccer Mom's claws come out. We were playing a pitiful team that didn't even know which end to score their goals. The team mom came at me with a knife she was also cutting oranges for snack time. She pointed the knife at me and said "YOU NEED TO TELL YOUR TEAM TO STOP SCORING GOALS". I looked at her and then the knife and said "Yes Mam". And yes as I think back she did have manboobs.:D

[vampireuk]

Originally posted by MikeC
She pointed the knife at me and said "YOU NEED TO TELL YOUR TEAM TO STOP SCORING GOALS".

Is she by any chance related to Alex Ferguson?:angel:

[volt]

Originally posted by vampireuk
Is she by any chance related to Alex Ferguson?:angel:

Damn, they should have gotten into semi finals yesterday :|

[madthumbs]

I've been hit twice on bicycle by hit and runs. If she apologized and seemed concerned, I probably would have dropped it too.

[PsychoSy]

Originally posted by MikeC
And yes as I think back she did have manboobs.:D

LMAO!!!

I betcha you didn't say that to her, though. :angel:

I would've! :p

"Yo, toots - are doze man boobs?!?"

Then I would've run away like Mr. Bean. :afro: :D

[Son Goku]

Looks one way, sees no cars...but doesn't look the other to see the pedestrian...bah I used to work at a grocery store, and we had some real whacky customers. One was an elderly gentleman who got in his car and sat there for like 5 minutes. So I'm comming up with the carts, he doesn't look back to see where he's going, hits the carts (but not me) and then starts yelling

Where did you come from? You weren't there when I got in my car 5 minutes ago. How dare you be there now

Sheesh, there's a reason they tell people to turn around and look where they're going when backing up...one can't expect that in 5 whole minutes nothing will ever change. Thank Gawd there was no small kid walking behind his car when he was doing that. He might after having hit (and possibly injured) the kid started yelling at him for being a young whipper snapper who had no business walking by his car when he wasn't there 5 minutes ago...

Then there was another time (I heard this from someone else) where this person left their grocery cart behind their SUV...nope they couldn't even walk it to the curb let along the cart corale.

So the lady got in her SUV, slammed the thing in reverse, and ran over the cart she just left there.

So a worker came up to try to free the cart from under her vehicle...when the woman just slammed it in reverse again and then ran the worker over. So the lady gets out of her SUV asking if she's alright. The worker was like "Yeah sure, of course I'm alright. I'm always alright when someone hits me with their vehicle" rather sarcastically.

I had an incident when I got hit by a car when I was riding my bike down the side of the road and was 10. We had just moved to the neighborhood...and I don't think the driver liked bicycles being in the road. Just honked the horn, perhaps veering over towards me, and the next thing I knew I was lieing on the street, my arm somewhat bloody and under the handlebar, and my mouth quite bloody as it got slammed up against the pavement.

My upper front 2 teetch are still somewhat badly chipped (this was after my adult teeth just started to come in...though not all of them were replaced yet), and I needed to go to the dentists for the whole afternoon, followed by a trip to the doctor after I was finished at the dentists.

No I wasn't in the middle of the road or anything, just on the side, the road wasn't narrow, and no one was comming the other way either... And yes, it was broad daylight too...

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by Ryoko
it's currently unofficial, but it is rumored that most soccer moms have manboobs, so you're not far off :D

some manboobs are pretty big :p :cool: :D

[SnakeEyes]

Originally posted by vampireuk
You forgot to add they are always on the phone and never watch the road for more than 5 seconds at a time.
:D:D My mistake. Absolutely true.

I don't know about the manboobs thing though. Maybe that part of the rule is more of a general thing, since I've seen one or two that actually had something more.. (now that I think about it though, no less than 95% were pretty, erm, flat-terrained.) :D:D

[Son Goku]

Oh, and speaking of which...I got off the interstate, was at a stop sign...the light going the other way was green (not located very far back), and it was after 4 pm and very heavy rush hour traffic.

There's a line of cars comming up and no way to go out, besides we're at the STOP!!!! sign, sheesh.

So after 5 cars go by, I guess the guy behind me didn't like waiting for the entire line, so stepped on his accelerator and rear ended me, arse.

I stopped, looked at my car, and there was a bit of a knick on the bumper, but he just drove right by, and no I wasn't able to get a liscence plate number or anything.

I got back on the road, continued to the mall, and wouldn't you know, I saw a car that looked exactly like that brown car stopped right behind a blue one...but this time there was both a fire engine and a cop car there...and it looked like he or she might have proceeded to hit a second car too, but got caught that time, sheesh....