Jill
Aspiring Cowgirl
Hi, Everyone --
Last Tuesday afternoon, my parents were in a car accident. They are going to be okay, but it was scary!
My mom was at fault. She pulled out of their subdivision right in front of another car that was going about 55mph. She and my dad were on their way to pick up Jonah (their grandson / my nephew) because he was coming from day care to their house to decorate cupcakes
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The lady driving the other car is okay, thank God.
Mom had to go to the emergency room in the ambulance from the accident. She could NOT walk. She could move her legs and feet when she was sitting down, but not when she stood up. It was too excrutiating to even move her legs. She has had back problems all her life. The x-ray didn't seem to show new damage, but it was Saturday before she could walk at all. My dad was helping her into an office chair and wheeling her around basically until then. She saw her regular doctor on Monday and she is doing better every day but I was really worried for her at first.
My Dad, oh my gosh, he is STUBBORN. He wouldn't talk to the doctors at the hospital about himself but his leg was hurt and calf was very swollen. It wasn't better THIS Tuesday, one week after the accident! And we'd been trying to get him to have it looked at. If it were me, my sister or my mom refusing to see a doctor, he'd be so upset but it's a different set of rules for him. I was finally able to get him to let me make a doctors appointment even though he was furious at me at first.
I took Dad to the doctor who gave him orders for an x-ray and a sonogram of his leg to check for blood clots. When the doctor said that, Dad realized we were right to insist he go to the doctor. I took him on Wednesday to the hospital for the tests but his doctor has not yet called with the results. However, the person who did the sonogram thought it looked good. The x-ray person didn't remark, but it's the clot thing that would be an immediate danger. I'm guessing the x-ray was okay or we'd have heard by now (?).
The doctor did say he thought it was just a bad bone bruise but that we needed the sonogram and x-ray to be on the safe side.
So far as I know, the insurance appraisor has yet to come and look at the car. We hope they will total it. It's a Volvo XC 90 SUV. It's a 2004 with like 30k miles on it. I don't know much at all about cars but I'm worried and so are my folks that it won't ever be restored to its original level of safety and safety is why my Mom was driving a Volvo. I don't know how much damage it has to have had to get it totaled. I know the book value but no clue what value it has to an insurance company as a salvage vehicle (any ideas?).
Yesterday, I drove out to the salvage yard and took pictures of it, for whatever worth they may be to my folks if the insurance company doesn't do what they want. The guy who took me back to where the car is told me the airbags alone are $6k to replace and that he presonally didn't think it could be fixed to be as safe as before.
I'm thankful they were in the Volvo since they are such safe cars. My parents have in the past had some not so safe cars, like that little cadillac XLR (like a corvette, but nicer). I'm also happy they were not in my dad's SUV which is a 2007 Escalade. I would worry that wouldn't be fixed as safe as new and nearly for sure not a car that would be "easily" written up as a total.
Here is my mom's Volvo, which happily took the worst of the accident vs. any people. Note that I think the drivers' side tire is leaning so maybe the axil is bent. My dad said at the accident site, the tires were pointing left and right, but they were pointing in the same general direction yesterday. The console and gear shift thing was pushed back as well.
PS My parents nearly took their little yorkie mix dog with them to pick up Jonah and if they had, I'm sure Bruiser would have been killed. It's made me think how dangerous it is to take the dogs for rides when it's not necessary.
Last Tuesday afternoon, my parents were in a car accident. They are going to be okay, but it was scary!
My mom was at fault. She pulled out of their subdivision right in front of another car that was going about 55mph. She and my dad were on their way to pick up Jonah (their grandson / my nephew) because he was coming from day care to their house to decorate cupcakes
The lady driving the other car is okay, thank God.
Mom had to go to the emergency room in the ambulance from the accident. She could NOT walk. She could move her legs and feet when she was sitting down, but not when she stood up. It was too excrutiating to even move her legs. She has had back problems all her life. The x-ray didn't seem to show new damage, but it was Saturday before she could walk at all. My dad was helping her into an office chair and wheeling her around basically until then. She saw her regular doctor on Monday and she is doing better every day but I was really worried for her at first.
My Dad, oh my gosh, he is STUBBORN. He wouldn't talk to the doctors at the hospital about himself but his leg was hurt and calf was very swollen. It wasn't better THIS Tuesday, one week after the accident! And we'd been trying to get him to have it looked at. If it were me, my sister or my mom refusing to see a doctor, he'd be so upset but it's a different set of rules for him. I was finally able to get him to let me make a doctors appointment even though he was furious at me at first.
I took Dad to the doctor who gave him orders for an x-ray and a sonogram of his leg to check for blood clots. When the doctor said that, Dad realized we were right to insist he go to the doctor. I took him on Wednesday to the hospital for the tests but his doctor has not yet called with the results. However, the person who did the sonogram thought it looked good. The x-ray person didn't remark, but it's the clot thing that would be an immediate danger. I'm guessing the x-ray was okay or we'd have heard by now (?).
The doctor did say he thought it was just a bad bone bruise but that we needed the sonogram and x-ray to be on the safe side.
So far as I know, the insurance appraisor has yet to come and look at the car. We hope they will total it. It's a Volvo XC 90 SUV. It's a 2004 with like 30k miles on it. I don't know much at all about cars but I'm worried and so are my folks that it won't ever be restored to its original level of safety and safety is why my Mom was driving a Volvo. I don't know how much damage it has to have had to get it totaled. I know the book value but no clue what value it has to an insurance company as a salvage vehicle (any ideas?).
Yesterday, I drove out to the salvage yard and took pictures of it, for whatever worth they may be to my folks if the insurance company doesn't do what they want. The guy who took me back to where the car is told me the airbags alone are $6k to replace and that he presonally didn't think it could be fixed to be as safe as before.
I'm thankful they were in the Volvo since they are such safe cars. My parents have in the past had some not so safe cars, like that little cadillac XLR (like a corvette, but nicer). I'm also happy they were not in my dad's SUV which is a 2007 Escalade. I would worry that wouldn't be fixed as safe as new and nearly for sure not a car that would be "easily" written up as a total.
Here is my mom's Volvo, which happily took the worst of the accident vs. any people. Note that I think the drivers' side tire is leaning so maybe the axil is bent. My dad said at the accident site, the tires were pointing left and right, but they were pointing in the same general direction yesterday. The console and gear shift thing was pushed back as well.
PS My parents nearly took their little yorkie mix dog with them to pick up Jonah and if they had, I'm sure Bruiser would have been killed. It's made me think how dangerous it is to take the dogs for rides when it's not necessary.
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