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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] My first auto accident happened way back in September 1987. I was a happy-go-lucky kid who had just started the third grade. I was riding my bicycle when a car that was speeding down my street ran into me. I was crossing the street at the halfway point of the street. It's a typically narrow residential street, and I saw the car turn the corner onto my street as I began crossing. From experience, I knew that a car going the speed limit of 30 mph was not going to hit me. But the driver was going significantly faster than that and he was staring at his radio changing the station. I flipped off my bike and landed on the sidewalk about ten feet from where I had been a second early. My bike was thrown to the other side of the street. This is what people have told me since I've blacked out everything from just before impact to finding myself on the sidewalk. I was taken by LifeFlight to Hermann Hospital where I spent the next month in traction. The accident had broken my left femur, broken my left tibia in a compound fracture (meaning the bone was sticking out of my leg), and crushed my left fibula. During my hospital stay, I had to undergo four surgeries to set the leg and repair the bones. I had to have a small part of my hip bone removed and transplanted into my lower leg to replace the part of my fibula that had been crushed. At the end of my month-long stay, I was placed in a body cast. This extended from my mid-stomach to my feet. My left leg was completely encased, but my right leg was exposed from the knee down. In late February 1988, the cast was removed and I began the process of learning to walk again. A couple months later, I had finally regaining most of my mobility. On the plus side, my run-in with a little red sports car has impacted my driving in a positive way. I go very slowly in all neighborhoods. I pay careful attention to kids playing near streets and people walking in the street. Whenever I sense that someone is going to do something stupid, I start planning where I going to veer off to or how I'm going to react. I think this has helped me become a rather safe driver. Now, if I could only work on my speeding on the freeways... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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