Seriously did NOT need that! - Car accident.

Kentuckychick wrote: So I was heading home from class tonight on I-75 from Richmond to Lexington (about 8:15 -- so pitch black) when all of a sudden some sort of large animal -- still have no idea what -- decided to do battle with my car. It lost. So did my car.

Of course I was going around 70 mph (which is the limit) and had no chance to slow down at all, so I hit it full force. I pulled over right after and called my dad FREAKING out. I was scared, but let him know I was okay right away, just panicking a bit because it scared me and needed someone to talk to.

He asked if my car was okay and I said I had no idea but doubted it and right as he said that it started smoking so I turned it off, clicked on the flashers and hopped out and got as far away as I could. My mom and dad left the house right then and I called the state troopers to report the accident.

I had to stand on the side of the interstate in the cold for 45 minutes though before my parents finally got there. I haven't known scared til I stood on the side of the freaking interstate alone in the dark. I made sure to stand on the other side of the guardrail, where lucky it was just a small wooded area that separated the interstate from another road. But dang. Those trucks whizzing by and just being completely alone in the dark

Finally my mom and dad got there and then shortly after the police arrived and took down the info and called a tow truck. My car looked pretty bad though. Whatever it was (the trooper said probably a deer but it looked NOTHING like a deer... the head didn't come over my hood and it was a BIG animal) busted the front end of my car and clearly busted the radiator. There were fluids all over the road.

I'm so mad though because I haven't even had this car a year and I just got it fixed about four weeks back from where the construction workers from work dropped a tree limb on it

I just keep trying to remind myself "material possessions"...

I'm safe... that's what REALLY matters.

bluebear replied: I'm glad you're ok. That sucks about your car. I know how you're feeling about the new car thing. My brother totalled my mom's brand new bmw a few years ago costing over $30,000 in repairs.

Glad you're ok. Honestly it's worth being out in the cold for 1 hour than anything else happening.

My3LilMonkeys replied: Glad to hear you are okay!!!

And I would be seriously FREAKED OUT standing alone in the dark by the highway for 45 minutes.

MoonMama replied: OMG! I'm so glad your ok!!

I would have been SO freaked out standing there alone too!

Kentuckychick replied: Thanks ladies! I really am just relieved that I'm okay and that it was "just" an animal... in other words... no other cars were involved. I have to stop and remember the wreck one of my co-workers had at Christmas on the same stretch of road where it ended up being a person that she hit (I think I posted about it then... so I won't go into the whole story)... but suffice it to say... I am definitely okay with having just killed an animal. As horrible as it was.

And yeah... I was pretty freaked out about standing on the interstate. Especially when I started thinking about the fact that whatever that animal was probably had friends that were most likely right behind me in those woods...

Luckily about the time my mind started giving me those wild images was right about the time my mom and dad pulled up.

ZandersMama replied: omg im so happy you are okay! i'm terrified driving at night and thats why. There was a moose wandering around my little town a couple weeks ago.

coasterqueen replied: Glad you are ok.

Good thing is you hit the animal. Because if you swerved to avoid it and crashed your car, insurance is not so forgiving, but if you hit it they are. Go figure.

Kentuckychick replied:
I know right!

I didn't even have the reaction time to slow down, let alone swerve. I think that's the good thing about hitting it at night -- I didn't see it coming until it was literally in my driver's side headlight. That's why I don't think it was a deer also though... because this animal was SO dark. I'm betting a coyote... or a juvenile bear. Just the way it moved and the darkness.

I told the cop when he pulled up that I just didn't even have time to do anything it happened so fast and he said, "yep -- that's why we call 'em accidents." Thanks dude.

coasterqueen replied:


Well I know my DCP swerved to NOT hit a deer and TOTALED her truck out and did some serious damage to herself - she ended up hitting a telephone pole. Insurance wasn't so nice and told her she should have hit the deer instead.

MommyToAshley replied: How scary... so glad you are ok.

My2Beauties replied: Oh honey I bet you were scared to death! poor thing, I'm glad you're ok

A&A'smommy replied: WOW I'm so glad you are ok, that is super scary!!!! I'm sorry about your car though that is a bummer!