CASE # 1303

We had just finished fixing a pipe that was broken about two feet deep in the ground. The pipe was fixed and we were just finishing filling the dirt back in to the hole where the pipe was. It was around 9 or 10 AM. I hear a loud tire squealing noise and a crash almost simultaneously, so I look up and there is a dark green volkswagon about 4 feet from me and moving at a high rate of speed.

BAM!!!!!

I go flying 48 feet through the air and land in the field near where I was working. I come to and there is a small crowd of people standing around me and asking me questions.

"What's your name?"
"Who is the president?"
"Do you know where you are"
and so on but you get the idea, I had no idea why they were asking me all these questions but I was answering the best I could.

"Tim"
"George Bush and I'm sure this is somehow his fault"
"I'm in Yorktown on route 17"

By this time I'm pissed off coz I just want to drink my coffee and smoke a cigarette coz it's got to be around break time. I ask the person who is standing on my leg to please kindly get the fuck off my leg so I can get my coffee. They told me to stay put and help would be there shortly. I pass out.

Wake up in the hospital ER which seemed so surreal at the time. Nurses were asking me tons of questions which I dont remember except them asking me to rate the pain on a scale of one to ten. to which I reply, "Fucking fifteen, give me some drugs!!!"

I pass out again and wake up in a hospital bed with my family and friends around. This is when I am told what happened. Some 78 year old lady made an illegal U turn at a red light and hit the side of the volkswagon which then careened right in to where I was working and hit me right in the middle of my leg. Snapped both bones in my lower leg right in half. The guy I was working with later told me that my heel was touching the back of my knee. Wish I had pictures of that.