On Saturday, July 15th, 2017 I was hit by a car. People find this surprising. And I can’t blame them. Nobody ever pictured me getting hit by a car. I can’t say that I was unlucky because the car was only going 10 miles per hour and it stopped immediately. There was no damage done to me that couldn’t be fixed. Apparently, getting hit by a car is not incredibly uncommon, studies show that on average, a pedestrian is injured every 7 minutes and studies estimate that there is a pedestrian fatality every 2 hours. Unlike the number of car crashes in the nation, the number of pedestrian fatalities has climbed from 11% to 15%. In 2012 alone an estimated 76,000 pedestrians were injured. There were 4743 pedestrian fatalities in 2012. But I was still …show more content…
When we started to skim the outskirts I started to feel sick. I asked my mom if I could walk home. Without a second thought, she let me go. I had walked the same route a hundred times in the past. I got to the intersection. I pressed the button, I waited. When the walk sign turned on I started to walk across the crosswalk. I had not gotten more than a few steps before the first car in the left turn lane barreled through the intersection. It did not hit me. The second car in the left turn lane barreled through the intersection, just like the first. Again, it did not hit me. The third car was waiting. The walk sign had just started flashing. I did not want to wait for the next cycle. I continued to walk across the …show more content…
I watched everything pass from the windows in the back. The people on the ambulance are nice. They take my blood pressure, heart rate, ask me if anything hurts and listen to my breathing. When we get to the ER they roll the stretcher inside and through the ER to a room. The ICU nurse is still with me, although the ambulance doctors left as suddenly as they came. The ambulance people leave after they get me out of the stretcher and into a bed but are quickly replaced by ER nurses. One of them takes my neck brace off because I don’t need it. The she asks me to look at the chart on the wall and rate my pain. I say two because it looked like a step up from normal, but not too far away for anyone to worry. Soon they leave and another nurse comes in and asks my name, age, and date of birth, then tells me to press a button if I need anything then she waltzes out in a blur. After everyone but the ICU nurse from the intersection leaves. I wait another 5 minutes before my mom comes in with a woman police officer in tow. The ICU introduces herself, then leaves. The cop says that she will sort out what happened and write the official police document and asks me to tell her exactly what happened. After I tell her what happens, she leaves and it’s just me and my mom. After waiting 15 minutes the doctor comes in and asks questions and let me go with a note saying to use Benadryl for the next twenty-four hours and then to start
For my first clinical observation, I was assigned to the trauma unit and it was not what I expected it to be. I thought the trauma unit would be fast pace and there would be nurses and doctors rushing everywhere, however, I did not see any of that. Instead, it was quite peaceful and this was probably because my clinical observation was from 10-12 p.m. When I met up with my senior nurse, she showed me a binder that contained all of her patients’ diagnoses, lab reports, treatments, and vital signs, which was a lot to take in because most of the terms she used, I had no idea what they were. After looking at the reports, she showed me a patient who had gunshot wounds on his back and abdomen. I could tell he was in a lot of pain by the tone of
One of the men smiles and assures me everything will be ok. I start to worry knowing when emergency crew say that something truly is wrong. While the man was speaking, the other slipped out of my sight and reappeared with a sharp needle. I wanted to tell of my fear of needles, but before I could say anything. The man injected the big needle and clear like substance into my body.
...e to be updated to consider who stopped first and has enough time passed to try and go across the intersection. In the event that all 4 cars at the intersection are self-driving cars, then it may be easier to handle this situation because the cars could have the ability to communicate with each other and decide faster.
"Selena Gibson" the nurse called out after opening the closed door. I stood up and quickly moved forward toward the nurse. Stepping through the door I was ask to turn to the right and go down the hallway. Walking down the long stretch dragging my feet along the way I was scared to find out what the doctor was going to say. Turning to the left the room looked impersonal and cold. I was asked to seat in the chair and wait till the doctor came in with the results.
Once we were done with paper work, we went back to the labor and delivery unit where we suited up. We wore medical booties, face masks, and nurse caps. Once the patient was ready to go into the OR, she first had to meet with the anesthesiologist to fill out more paper work. After meeting with the anesthesiologist, we all went into the OR. There was a student nurse, two anesthesiologists, the patient, and two RN nurses. While the student nurse was preparing the OR, the patient was getting an epidur...
As she was stopped, there were two cars coming from the left, the direction we were headed. “Mom, those two cars are turning right. We can go because they won’t intersect us.” I spoke up, being the backseat driver that I am. One car turned.
Personal injury solicitors warn that claiming compensation can be difficult when pedestrians are injured after stepping out into the path of an oncoming car, as road traffic accident claims courts will determine that the pedestrian behaved in a negligent fashion and that the driver could not have reasonably been expected to have stopped in time to avoid the collision. It is therefore the responsibility of pedestrians, motorists, schools and parents to ensure children are safe when walking to and from school in the darker months. The following tips could help to reduce the volume of road traffic accident claims and pedestrian collisions: - Pedestrians must look carefully before stepping out into the road. This is still the case when using a pedestrian crossing - inattentive drivers could drive through the red light and collide with people who are crossing the road.
A precautious individual, I began to pedal at a slightly increased rate. Still I didn't feel as though I was in any real danger, until the car flew past me, grazing my arm. An excessant shriek erupted from the car as it grinded to a halt at the coming stop sign. Then, to my greatest horror the white lights on the rear of the car ignited......the car was going in reverse.
I slowly pressed my foot down on the accelerator as I approached the passing lane. I was tired of following the old man in his beat up, gold station wagon at 50 miles per hour. I needed to get to school! I was right behind him when I topped the hill and entered the passing zone. That's when I saw it...
THE DRIVER was in a rush, and was actually gripping the steering wheel quite hard when it happened. The driver was quite aware and alert in the moments leading up to the crash, but was mostly concerned with the time than what the street ahead of him. Not really his fault either, because he had done everything right -- eyes ahead, three miles below the speed limit, and a foot gently resting above the brake in case anything drastic happened. Unfortunately, the driver, who was really a nice guy -- he was rushing to pick up his daughter from school early (it was her birthday, and he had balloons in the back, purple, just like her favorite color) -- and too busy worrying about whether he would be late to notice THE PEDESTRIAN and her son were just
I always hear those old sayings. In the course of one day I can hear them about everything from retraining old dogs to getting up early. I think they make sense and I even ponder on some of them, but I never really thought one might mean as much to me, or become as realistic as it has become in my life. The clichés about telling those you love, how you feel, before it is too late and the ones about living every day like it is your last have an all new meaning to me.
Out of all those crashes, 26,738 people were injured and 281 people were killed. It was mathematically figured out that a crash happens every eight minutes in the year 2016. Since crashes are so common, it is very important to know what to do when you are involved in one... whether you cause it or you were the victim.
When we reached the parking lot there were a few groups of people still around. There were parents getting into their cars and one big group of girls. I continued on to run straight to the car without stopping to talk or look back. I was the first to reach the car. I looked back to my friends to notice some of the girls I was with stopped to tell our other friends what had just happened.
Oh my God! TJ!“ It was just my mom.She was crying and calling my name again and again.I was so embarrassed and disappointed of my self.I had let her down. After, two of the EMT guys put us on an ambulance. Finally,we made our way to the hospital. My friend john and me were sent in palo alto medical center. It took us about fifteen minute to get there. My friend john was alright. He had a couple of stitches in his head and his arm. He got relieved after a couple of tests but, I was severely injured. I was lying on a hospital bed and thinking what I would have done in the past. Cause this terrible accident happened to me. I was sent to el camino hospital, where I went to the operation theater for my hipbones surgery.The doctor told me after surgery that my hipbones was fractured the reason they had to put a plate in hipbones to stay together.Although, my left arm was also fractured the reason I could not feel my arm. After surgery, they took me to the other room and gave me a couple of injections. Momentarily, I went to sleep. I woke up in the next day and thinking hopefully it was just a dream,but it’s not. I opened my eyes and saw a couple of relative looking me like a stranger. My dad came over my bed and gave me a hug and I literally started crying after thinking about the accident. I could not believe after a massive car accident I was still alive. Doctors kept in hospital couple of