Write a story which includes the words:"He swerved the car ro the right as fast as he could."
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On July 29, 2006, as I was crossing the street in a crosswalk, in Newark, New Jersey, an SUV ran through the red light, hit me and dragged me half a block. It was around 5:00 pm, and extremely hot. I felt the skin of my legs burning on the ground. I tried to get up, but I couldn’t. My legs wouldn’t moove. I tried to look up, see where I was, but I was blinded by the blood in my eyes that was pouring down from my opened up head. I screamed for help, for someone to please help me get off the ground, I never felt so much pain, in all my life.
Finally, there was someone at my side, who called an ambulance, and stayed with me until they came. It turns, out he had been in his car at the red light, saw it happen, and came to my aid. He was my lifesaver, as I nearly bled to death, and would’ve had I not made it to the hospital in time. It turned out, he saw that the driver had been using her cell phone. I had to have a blood transfusion, suffered a brain injury, had 150 staples in my head, a fractured skull, a bone in my neck was crushed, broke my collar bone, several ribs, my pelvis, my hip was dislocated and fractured, and my ankle completely broken on both sides. I was in the hospital for a long time, then a rehab hospital. I had to wear a neck brace, hip brace, big boot, use a wheelchair, and a walker.
My life completely changed that day. I can’t even begin to explain the amount of pain that I suffered, and how hard it was to recover, and how this destruction was caused by a lack of extremely poor judgement. It was 8 years ago, and though I’ve healed in many ways, there’s parts of me that will never be the same. I take every day as it comes, and deal with the pain, and the grief it caused the best I can. Life is a precious, fragile gift, and it’s so unfair to rob someone of that gift because your distracted on the phone while driving. Whatever needs to be said can’t possibly be more important than another person’s life, or even your own, it can wait. Please, help me share my story, to remind people of the pain that can be caused by driving destracted. Please text responsibly.