The Wreck
I remember letting go of the
wheel and turning my body so I wouldn’t get hurt. The sound of the cars hitting
together was the scariest thing I ever heard. “Please don’t let me die, please
don’t let me die” I prayed.
Rewinding back to the beginning of
that morning, I woke up for school not feeling too well. It was raining and
cold outside. I usually dreaded to miss school because I hated to be behind and
having to make-up work .But I just couldn't push myself to get up out of bed. When
I finally had the strength to get up I walked down the hallway to tell my Ma
that I didn't feel well. She told me to lie back down and just take the day
off; so I did. An hour into my sleep my phone rung and woke me up; it was a
text message from my friend in class. "Brittney where are you! We need you
to anchor today remember!" I had totally forgotten that I signed up for
anchoring for my schools TV show that week. I texted her back and said don’t
worry and that I would be there. I knew that I should have just told her that I
wasn’t feeling too well but I didn’t want to let my classmates down. I hurried
up and got ready and told my Ma that I was going to school. She didn’t want me
to, but she understood that I had to anchor for the show. I grabbed my umbrella
and walked to my car.
It was still pretty bad outside and very cold.
I started my car and started to drive to school. I decided to call my boyfriend
to tell him what was going on with me. I felt a little better talking to him
because he always knew what to say to put a smile on my face. I was at the red
light about to turn left to the road to my school. “I still can’t believe I’m
going to this school just to anchor.” I vented to him. The light turned green and I pushed on the
gas. The dangerous thing about the road to my school was how it was constructed.
You have to slow down to turn the roundabout because cars are coming from the
opposite direction. I had been taking
this road all my years of high school and now that I was a senior I was use to
what I had to do. “I still look really cute today, even though I have a cold.”
I remember saying. When I came up to the turn everything seemed like it went to
slow motion, “What do you have on?” My boyfriend asked. And right when my
boyfriend asked this the scariest thing happened. When I turned the corner my
car ended up in the other lane. I didn’t panic because the car in the other lane
was farther back. “It’s okay Brittney, just pull your car back to your lane” I
thought to myself. I can see the car getting closer and closer, I tried to
swerve my car back to its lane but it wouldn’t go.
“Babe did you hear my question?” And in that moment I knew that I was going to
hit this car head on, I let go of the wheel and turned my body. The sound of
the cars hitting together was the scariest thing I ever heard. “Please don’t
let me die, please don’t let me die” I prayed. I was too scared to open my eyes
because I didn’t know what to expect. This was the first car accident I ever
been in and I was all alone. “Brittney! Brittney! What happened?” I opened my
eyes hearing my boyfriend still on the phone. But the phone wasn’t in my hands
any more I couldn’t find where it went. The inside of my car was smoky and all
I can see was my broken windshield. I panicked thinking that the car was going
to exploded with me sitting there in the car. So I got out the car and that’s
when I started to ball into tears.
There was a police officer
already on seen and he ran up to me asking if I was okay. I couldn’t stop
crying, it was still raining and he took me to his car and sat me down. He went
to go check on the other car and called the paramedics. After a couple of minutes
he came back and asked me for my name and my I.D. I told him it was in the car
and my phone was in there too. He went to go look but all he could find was my
school I.D and my phone. “I must have picked up the wrong I.D!” I cried. Oh no,
I thought. I’m going to jail. I was the cause of the car accident and I didn’t
have my driver’s license on me. I called my Ma and told her what happened. My Ma
just had surgery that week and she couldn’t really walk because of it. But
within 10 minutes she was there in her p.j’s, holding me saying everything was
going to be alright.
I still didn’t know if the other people
in the car were okay. I didn’t want to get up and see my car mangled. “Everything is my fault! My car wouldn’t get
back in the other lane.” I cried to my Ma. “It’s okay Brittney, just calm
down.” I can tell that I was scaring my Ma even more with my loud cries so I
tried to calm down for her. The paramedics came and checked to see if
everything was okay with me. I told them that I was fine. After I had the guts
to stand up and see the accident most of everything was cleaned up. The traffic
on both sides was still bad but everything else was picked up. The other people
in the car turned out to be okay. It was two men in the car; they stood on the
side of the road talking to the cops. The other police officer came up to me.
Alright this is it. I’m going to jail I thought to myself.
“Alright Brittney, I’m glad that you and
everybody else was okay. This could have been a lot worse.” He wrote me a
ticket and told me that I was free to go. Thank God I thought to myself. I got
in my Ma’s car and sat down, and then she started to drive off. “I can’t
believe I lost my car.” I said sadly. I had just got my car three months ago
from my Ma and my dad. It was a two door silver Hyundai Accent and I decorated the
inside of the car with Ed Hardy everything. It was the perfect first car for me
and it was gone. “I’ll rather have you than the car Brittney” my mother told
me. She was right. I was so thankful to be okay.
When I think back on my car accident now I
always regret being on my cell phone. Many people today die because of phone
use while driving. If I never was on the phone that day then I would have been
more focus on the road and never would have got in the car accident. This event
impacted my life in so many different ways. I am now a cautious driver. Every time I’m with
my friends I always tell them to wear their seatbelts because they never know what
can happen to them while driving. I also tell all my friends the importance of not
being on the phone while driving. I now keep my phone in my purse on the back
seat so I would not be tempted to look at my phone.
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