It seemed a long way along all the motorways and dual carriageways, my cousin and I were just falling asleep and dosing off (as we had a late night the night before as we went ice-skating).
We were just going nice and steady and my Aunty fell asleep and all of a sudden the car behind went into us, My Aunty said
“ What is it? Is it one of the tyres?” my Uncle said “I don’t know”.
The car in front of us was involved too and we were pushed off the road into this grassy area along the road near a field.
We all go out of the car and I was really cold, as I was only dressed in shorts and t-shirt, the sun didn’t come out. Lucky everyone else was wearing trousers so they didn’t feel the cold like me! As we got out the car my Aunty was ok for a minute, next minute I knew she was on the floor and fainted. We phoned the ambulance as soon as we could. During the time we waited my Uncle and I went to go and see the old lady who was driving the car behind. We were talking to her and she was upset as she saw my Aunty on the floor. The old lady said to us that she only took her eyes off the road for a second”. By then both my uncle and I realised that she had dogs in cages at the back. She obviously got disturbed from the dogs. She turned around and her car went into my uncle’s who went into the car in front. My uncle and I went back over to see my aunty and to see how well she was getting on.
Some other cars stopped by the side of the road to wait for the police so that they could give their statements and be witnesses.
By the time the ambulance had arrived my Aunty has come round and felt ok again, she really didn’t want to go to hospital as we had no where of getting there as the car was trapped in the ditch on the edge of the road near the field. She managed to walk in a straight line with help from both my cousin and I by the side of her. My aunty had to fill in a form and the ambulance went back to the hospital without her.
Soon the police arrived and they took notes and took statements from the witnesses and then came to see us. My aunty took some photos of the damage to all the cars so that they would be evidence too. After a while the police got everything organised and they got an AA recovery vehicle for the old lady’s car as it had to be towed away. But lucky our vehicles were ok only the number plate had fallen off. The police officer said“ I’ll give you a note and if any police spot you give them this and explain that you have been in an accident”. The police managed to sort out our car and we were lucky enough to drive it home. The policeman said “We could leave and it would be better if we went home”.
On our journey home we looked on the map to try and find somewhere to have our picnic peacefully. Lucky we found somewhere it was really peaceful and it was a great day out even though we ended up somewhere we wouldn’t of planned to go. We spent most of the day there, my cousin and me had a great day and we walked around this big area and it had lots of places to play hide and seek.
When we got home my aunty was telling us that her neck hurt so we had to talk her up to the hospital, which wasn’t very far, and get it sorted out. The doctor said, “that it will clear –up in a few days and that it is a normal reaction in a car accident”. He gave her some painkillers to stop the pain.
But I was so glad that this day was over, the accident seemed to happen in slow motion and it seems to go on forever and I am always remembering it, although the accident only lasted a few seconds.
