Car wreck - 1 - Sept 1972

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In my discussion: My adventure in plastic surgery - part 7 my friend @TiarasOceanView said that what happened must've been the worse day of my life. I countered that I suspected that the day I totaled a car on the freeway was probably the worst day. She suggested I tell you about it. Honestly, there's not a lot to say. I was driving from Austin to San Marcos for my Thursday afternoon class when I hit a stopped car on the highway. In my defense, there were not flashers, there were not cones, nothing to tell me that the car was stopped until I was nearly on top of it. In fact, the police officer who came to the hospital agreed with that assessment and did not give me a ticket. I turned the car over, but because I was wearing my seat belt, I was basically uninjured. I might've cracked my head on the steering wheel, because I had an enormous bump on my forehead. Other than that, I had taken my left shoe off and had some cuts on my foot as well. I was taken to the ER in an ambulance. In fact, I had passed that very ambulance downtown on my way south. When the driver and the EMT were working on me, I said that I had seen them. The driver and I had locked eyes for a moment in traffic, and he remembered me too. The end result after skull x-rays was that my head was hard enough not to have cracked. My dad picked me up at the hospital and I went home. I actually made it on the news because one of the channels had been in San Marcos for a press conference and had stopped to catch footage of the wreck. Couple of side stories of this wreck in another post.