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I survived a car crash

It was a couple of years ago.....

So I was picked up by my friend's older brother and my friend and her other older bro were also in the car. Since our neighborhood is fairly close to the local middle and high schools we go to, we didnt have our seatbelts on. When I drive home with my own brothers (which is most of the time) we don't wear seatbelts either.

Big mistake....

So we're driving and we come to this intersection. We stop at the stop sign. No cars coming from the right, where we were getting ready to turn into a street that lead to some neighborhoods.

We go ahead and turn.

The car, a small black thing (I'm not good with cars, I'm sorry) came from behind overgrown trees. It was going fast.... I think something went wrong with the breaks. I can't remember much. Never paid any attention to the law stuff or anything, just wanted the situation to not be the center of attention anymore and I just didnt give a crap about any court stuff. I just wanted to stay home and not do anything anymore and soon you'll understand why....

So the black car is coming. I know it's gonna crash and try to get the seatbelt on. I wish I could've gone home with my brothers, but I was sleeping over at my friends house and we decided that I'd better just go home with her family instead.

I didn't get the seatbelt on. 

The car crashed into us, and I remember my friend screaming for about a millisecond before I couldn't hear her anymore. Glass was reflecting the sunlight, everything was going way too bright.... 

I heard her older brothers yelling, though I can't remember why exactly. Then the driver of the car screeched. I noticed her other brother wasn't in his seat anymore, before I was flung out of my spot.

It felt like one of those dreams where you fall off a cliff. I couldn't scream or move or anything. I wanted to wake up before I hit the ground like I always did when I had these dreams. 

I went over some debris and stuck my left leg out to try to make a good landing. 

Another bad mistake.

I heard loud snaps and then I fell backwards again. There's a ditch thing right by the road, and its steep. It is full of overgrown trees and undergrowth.

I landed, and I think some sharp plants and branches broke the fall a bit.

I was blacked out for I don't know how long.

When I came back to my head, and the blackness dissolved slowly, there were blue and red lights and screams and yells and I remember seeing a bunch of people. Uniformed men were going up and down the whole road.

I then hear someone calling out "Hannah!" I was confused and shocked so I didn't know who Hannah was at the time. 

It was my name by the way.

There were adults wailing and screeching and holding a bloody mess that later was announced to be my friend, who received the lost impact from what I could recall. 

I then regained some of my memory and such and realized that people were calling for me. There were so many flashes and the light from the sun burned into my skull through my pupils, and I thought I'd have a seizure (I have started having seizures about a year or so before this incident so I was diagnosed with epilepsy and had a lot of symptoms and seizures since then) 

Maybe I did. I've always had the ones where you blank out and then return to normal a few seconds or minutes later and act as though nothing had happened....

I then looked around me, and realized I was in this bush with spikes, which I don't know the name of. I saw blood all over me, and gushing out of my leg. 

I saw white and thought it must've been bird poop or debris or some other pathetic thing. I wasn't thinking hard about it.

After observing and poking, I realized that it was my bones. And the pain began to emerge in floods. 

I tried to hold in the screams but they exploded out of me anyways. I wailed for someone to help me or kill me and put me out of my misery or something. I had a bad headache and my ears were ringing and squeaking. I was crying hard and noticed bloody tears streaking down my cheeks, which were impaled with small thorns that I began ripping out. 

It was the worst pain ever.... 

Finally a few people, officers and firefighters and people, came to help. I saw people placed in ambulances and it creeped me out and I screamed more.

They clipped some sharp thorns and tried to free me. It did barely any good.

After a while they got me to the hospital.

My knee was severely crippled, and I may never be able to use it again. I still have crutches and my ankle, foot, and overall leg had so many broken bones. 

It upsets me still so I don't add too many details about the injuries I'm suffering. They all said I'm lucky to have lived.

I found out about the two older brothers later. The driver had a broken arm, elbow, and ankle, and a bit of a concussion. A few other cars were hit be ours because we were hit and practically flew into the middle of the highway. My friend sadly passed away due to a snapped neck immediately. The other brother was hit by another car that flew into the drivers side and he was ejected from the vehicle. He rolled over the top of the other car and broke many bones in his hands, as well as his kneecap and femur and had a long road rash on his left arm that was surprisingly deep and got infected. The driver of the black car passed away. He was a young adult who was on his way to a date. He was wearing a nice suit and had an engagement ring for his girlfriend. Two others have died, a mother and her oldest son. They were in the car that crashed into our drivers side. There was another teenage boy that broke all his ribs and had a collapsed lung, and his little sister has severe spinal injuries and is crippled and paralyzed from the waist down. She was a dancer as well, as I have heard. Their father is depressed from his losses and I do not blame him.

I guess Fate and Death agreed to spare me. This sounds awful, but maybe they shouldn't have. Why? A mother died, as well as a man who would have had a fiancé (his girlfriend was upset and claimed she would have said yes) and a father must raise a crippled dancer and a severely injured boy alone, while battling grief for his other son and wife.... One of my best friends is dead. I hear her scream every night and know that was the last thing she ever did before suddenly being taken from the world. I have nightmares. Her oldest brother is deeply guilty and wishes he were dead instead. I always visit their family and have become close with my best friend's brothers. I am doing all I can for them, but they lost a sister. I could never handle losing my siblings. And I used to dance as well, and I feel horrible for that little girl. Her mother and older brother are dead. And she can never dance again. And I lost my mother when I was just turning 11. She was in an accident with a drunk teenager. The teenager was a bit of a rebel and never made good decisions, but changed his life after realizing how dangerous certain things were. I forgive him, and I forgive the person who caused this accident.

Just so much crap. I do not blame the black car's driver. He wasn't texting and wasn't drunk. It was indeed an accident. So many bad things happen.... 

I'm still emotional. I'm supposed to be dead. If you get ejected from the vehicle like me and my friends brother did, you encounter death. It just happens. But it didnt kill me.... How? Why? 

Always wear your seatbelt. 

Always. I cannot stress this enough. 

I'll be more careful next time. 

RIP Sage. You were beautiful, a wonderful artist, a big fantasy fan, colorful, always helped at the retirement home and volunteered for many things. You were never a bystander when it came to bullies. You were everybody's hero. I love you so much, and I hope to see you in your beautiful angel wings someday. 

Also, RIP to the other deaths in that dreadful crash, and to my mother. I love you, mommy. You're always gonna be my role model, and no matter how far away you seem, I'll always love you and remember the light you gave me in my life. I know you're here with me, even if I can't see you. I'll see you someday.
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