Serious bummer. She was working this morning...some dink in an H2 crossed the center line. He was hauling ass (45-50MPH...in a fucking snowstorm) and nailed her truck (F-550 rollback) head-on. The end result was the H2 getting absolutely annihilated, her truck sliding off the road and partway down an embankment.
She has a badly sprained left ankle, some fairly impressive bruises and a split lip from the airbag & seat belt, a strained right shoulder, a bunch of small scratches & cuts from the driver's window shattering, and may have a couple bruised ribs.
She also has no less than three highly-offensive cards from the rest of the drivers.
Yikes. Hope she recovers well and quickly! On a side note, really tired of snow/cold/winter weather this year. Please bring summer quickly - I need sun and a warm beach!
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She's home...right arm in a sling, left leg in a brace, needed stitches for a cut on her temple. I spent an hour making sure all the glass was out of her hair...for the record, when safety glass shatters, it gets EVERYWHERE.
I think the 550 is totaalled. Looks like it won't manage 1,000,000 miles.
Luck had less to do with it than physics...she was driving a 6-ton rollback wrecker mounting a massive push bumper/grille guard made from industrial I-beams and angle iron.
According to Chuck, the F-550 is badly damaged: front clip & both doors damaged, windshield cracked, airbag fired, radiator core support bent, headache rack bent, RF rim damaged, several cab & body mounts broken. That is all repairable (in fact, he could have all but the airbag done in two days), but it looks like the frame is damaged.
He still plans to offer it to the dealer where he bought it: it has over 960,000 miles...and STILL fired right up when he got it back, after the wreck, after sitting for 2 days, in 15-degree weather.
She's recovering nicely. She is out of the arm sling tomorrow, seeing the doctor about her ankle Thursday, weather permitting.
She is definitely feeling better...though to Marm's dismay, she's not up to taking him for a walk & won't be for a while.
Today, I woke up before she did (very unusual) to find that instead of what usually happens on a cold night (I end up with no blanket!), she was laying against me under the blanket, resting her head on my shoulder with her hair covering both of us, two cats on the blanket next to her, and Vierna (tiny shorthair) having slipped UNDER the blanket and sort of burrowed under my other arm, sleeping in one of those weird contortions only cats can manage. I think I just watched her sleep for almost an hour.
