Weathermen need to be fired! They tell you one thing and you prepare for it. You're on the road trying to get someplace then POW! Torrential downpour! Don't these guys have to be licensed or are they just guys with nice teeth who point at things not there?
Should expect it living in Florida since it rains here with zero notice. If I would have stayed home like 10 minutes early. I could kick myself. Just my luck that just before my exit is a pile up. I don't even remember how many cars but it looked bad.
As with all accidents everyone has to go slow and look at the other person's bad luck. It's gruesome and rude. I take pics with my cell phone usually so I can look later. I'm morbid.
Trucking along my merry way, turning my head to look briefly, there's a sounding of horns. Breaks trying to squeal over the sloppy road conditions and my attention is flashed straight ahead just in time to see the brake lights of the guy in front of me!
I really hate rubber neckers and I just became one! I could kick myself a dozen times!
The dude in front of me could kick me too as my heap of metal on more metal slams into his plastic car-like monstrosity. It looked like a mini explosion in a plastic scrap factory with all this crap flying all over the road, pelting cars left and right with break light cover fragments and rear bumper chunks.
His trunk was shoved into his back seat and in succession his head into his steering wheel. Needless to say I wasn't in the best shape either. I neglected the seat belt. When I got in my car so when I hit the guy I cracked my chest into the steering wheel breaking the steering wheel column in the process. My sternum garnered a fracture and my neck was twisted something awful. I still have pain from it.
My fender bender caused others to slam on their breaks. That caused more vehicles to swerve, fishtail and do their best to ignore getting into an accident. It worked for a few people but with the poor driving conditions and limited visibility it was inevitable that other motorists would be affected.
The end result was twelve cars involved in my mishap. No serious injuries thank God and the police determined it to be no fault due to the conditions of the road. The guy in front of me was a rubber necker too and wound up nearly hitting someone in front of him. Luckily he didn't blame me, just the weatherman. I thought it was funny considering it was the exact same thing I done earlier right when this flash rain business originally started.
We all were very lucky. Scrapes, bruises and higher premiums are what the majority of the people involved took away from it. Seatbelts are a serious must especially now that most states require them!
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