Wednesday, September 17, 2008

OMG! HIT AND RUN!

That's right, ladies and gentlemen!
We were involved in a HIT AND RUN accident tonight!!!

First and foremost, we are all fine, so don't worry.

Jason and I were supposed to meet up with the Project Manager w/ our home builder down in San Marcos at 3:30 today. We are down to one vehicle right now so Jason took the bus to work this morning. Jackson, Aiden and I left the house at 2:15 in order to pick Jason up at 2:45 from work. We then were getting on IH-35 from the dreaded 6th Street entrance ramp when the UT Student in front of us slammed on her breaks in front of us. We saw her and in turn, slammed on our breaks. The woman behind us had her head in a place it shouldn't be when you are trying to yield onto a major freaking highway!!! And for those of you who don't know the area, it's in downtown Austin...probably one of Austin's busiest entrance ramps. Anyway...she smashed into the back end of our car so hard that even though we were completely stopped, it pushed our car forward into the UT Student's car!!! She jumped out and I rolled down my window and told her, "Oh my GOSH! I'm so very sorry! Are you ok?? We were just slammed into you!" and she told me, "It's ok. I'm fine. Some people need to pay attention..." looking in the direction of the woman with her head in the undisclosed location. blah blah blah. The Student wanted to go, so since she had NO PART in causing ANY damage, we told her she could go.

I looked at the woman who caused the accident and told her, "You and I need to pull over and exchange some information. I have CHILDREN in the car that might need to go to the doctor to be checked out." She looked at me and said, "ok."

Jason, at that point, had already JUMPED out of the car and made this huge scene, screaming and yelling at the woman who caused the accident. He looked at her front plates and all they said was "JK Airport." I was trying to yell at Jason and tell him to calm down and while I was trying to pull over in the middle of traffic, the woman DROVE OFF!

She just took off and that was it.

I was utterly stupefied. Speechless. I didn't know what to do. My hands were shaking, I was so upset.

We decided there wasn't much we could do. Calling the cops, waiting for them to show up (even though the police department was a mere few blocks away) and got all the paperwork done, at LEST an hour would have gone by. Which would have put us in even WORSE traffic and we were pushing it to get to San Marcos on time as it was, ya know? So we left.

I can't believe another woman (and I hate to pass judgement, but this woman was kinda ghetto so I have no DOUBT she has quite a few kids) or mother would do that! Smash into the back end of a car with two toddlers in it and then just bail. What a sorry excuse for a human being. How dare her.

During all of this, J&A never once cried. I think they were just too shocked by their father's behavior, to be honest. LOL!

I'm sure we are ALL going to be pretty damn sore tomorrow. I figure the sorry excuse for a woman had to have been going about 15 miles an hour when she hit us when we were standing still. The boys were (and always are) sitting properly in their car seats.

Anyway....I'm pooped. I need to upload some pictures of the new house and tell you guys all about that but I'm going to spend some time with Jason first.

((HUGS!))


1 comment:

RN Student In The Raw said...

I really shouldn't be amazed at the actions of some people. Instead of getting a ticket and charged with not having insurance this moron would rather be charged with a hit and run? Wow. Thank God it wasn't worse and that you are all ok!