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I have a similar story myself.... I was a passenger in a VW Baja Bug. It had no seat belts. My friend the car painter who taught me how to paint was driving. We had been out doing our normal thing, partying up and cruising around. Going to a friends house on the other side of the Island we were taking a off ramp from the freeway one of those long circular ones my friend was going way too fast I tell him to slow down. He does but not enough.
The bug is pushing hard, the front tires are turned but the bug is slowly going wide. It gets to the curb at the edge of the road and it goes over it and hits grass. The grass made it go almost straight and down a embankment at a 45 degree angle its a steep embankment going from a higher level of the freeway down to a lower freeway going under the off ramp.
Luckily the car didn't roll on the way down the embankment. If it did we would have went right out and into freeway traffic as it rolled.
Instead as we were almost at the bottom where the shoulder of the freeway was a light pole rushes up at us. The car is going about 45 - 50 hits the pole at the front of the drivers door caving the body in on a diagonal towards the rear. The car stopped in a instant.
Try as I might I was unable to hold myself in the seat and was ejected out through the windshield breaking the rear view mirror off as I flew out. The old VW's had a cast metal bracket screwed onto the top of the windshield frame with 3 screws. The bracket snapped off about an inch from the base with a jagged sharp end that ripped my head open from the front hairline all the way to the crown of my head.
Then when the glass was knocked out the edge of the windshield frame the rubber gasket slipped over was like one long continuous sheet metal knife. It gave me another slice right to the bone nearly as long as the first going crosswise from above my above left eye up in my hair to above my right ear.
I also split my right ear lobe in two on something. I got a 3 inch long gash in the top of my right leg from a drywall screw that was sticking into the legwell of the car. It was holding something down in the front trunk and was too long so it stuck down a bit the sharp self drilling point opened my leg up as good as any razor could.
I was thrown with a tremendous amount of force, I landed about 20 feet away from the car in the middle of the right hand lane of the freeway! On coming traffic somehow saw me laying in the road (it was about 9pm at night) and screeching and swerving a car just missed me before the cars behind came to a stop. I was very lucky I didn't get run over!
I never lost consiousness, but was definitely dazed a bit and in shock. I sat up and instantly a literal waterfall of blood poured non stop off the top of my head down in front of me! I mean it was pouting in a wide sheet in front of my eyes.
I'm a Registered Red Cross Life Saver from my Padi Dive Master Cert so I knew I had to stop or slow the flow of blood or I would die before the ambulance arrived. The same icy cold you mentioned was coming over me from losing so much blood my body temperature was dropping.
I ripped my shirt off and folded it into a square about 10 x 10 inches and with both arms I pressed it down on top of my head. I laid back down, told one of the on lookers to elevate my legs and laid there shivering even though it was a warm 82 degree night.
My friend that was driving got some small cuts and a huge bruise where the side of the car came in against his hip and leg. He lucked out. Unfortunately I didn't.
The ambulance finally arrived and somehow they got the idea that I was driving! Asking me so many questions. I didn't say anything and they put me on a backboard strapping my head down to it, the most UNCOMFORTABLE thing you can imagaine.
The ambulance was one of the big ICU Medevac box vans it was air conditioned. I was already shivering. The AC made me twice as cold. I was SCREAMING at the paramedics to turn the fucking AC off! I mean really screaming at the top of my lungs! They said it was off and I was so cold I kept swearing at them to turn it off.
My friend was in the back on the opposite side sitting on the bed telling me it was off and to stop yelling. I felt that I needed to yell... like it was keeping me alive. I knew I was really messed up and had lost a massive amount of blood.
At the hospital I was put on 2 IV's one mixed saline and pain meds and another of whole blood. Then lots of injections all over my head that hurt like hell until the pain meds began to work.
They shaved almost my entire head. Around the gashes it hurt like hell even though they had loaded me up on pain meds.
Then the stitching started on my head. I remember hearing the needle scraping on my skull occasionally and felt the pull of each stitch on my head.
I got over 400 stitches on the top of my head....
I was getting shots in my ear and also my leg. I didn't even realize I had a gash on the top of my leg 6 inches long that tore the muscle above the knee cap nearly a inch deep!
They were stiching it inside the gash first as I sat there watching. The sight of it made me almost throw up at the sight of the inside of my leg. (they had it spread open to get to the inside. Using a thread that dissolved for the inside stitches.
They finished my leg and then did my ear. I got 270 stitches in my leg not counting the inside ones. Another 12 in my ear lobe. I'm suprised they had enough thread!
I began to feel better a few hours later but my head hurt like a gorilla was bashing me with a baseball bat. Just a constant throbbing..
I was really lucky to be alive...
This is a true story. I was about 26 years old when it happened. If I had a seatbelt my injuries would have been much less severe possibly none at all... KH
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