Now I'm a bit less out of it, (although I've just had more codeine to enable me to sit up, so I'll be back to bed soon!) here's my account!
I hate these kind of junctions! We were heading towards it and saw the van pull out, for which Phil braked to slow for it. He cut it fine but we easily avoided him by braking. I don't think either of us could believe it when the Fiesta just followed him. Phil stood on the brakes and tried to avoid him, but it seemed like the Fiesta wasn't going anywhere. There was a big crash as we hit him, and the force spun us. I remember going backwards. I think we went up the kerb backwards which must have pushed me forwards, because I remember having to lift my head when we finally stopped. I saw the windscreen was broken. Phil asked if I was ok, and I took a few deep breaths, I just had a massive pain in my chest and across my stomach. We looked over to the other car, and couldn't see the driver! We thought he had legged it! Phil went over and apparent'y he was slumped in the passenger seat. He admitted liability straight away, saying he just didn't see us.
What had happened was beginning to dawn on me, and I began to panic. A couple had stopped after seeing the accident, and the lady got me out of the car and tried to calm me down. I did a silly thing and looked at the car. You know how I get attached and I just broke down. I noticed my finger was swoleld and bruised and thought it was broken. I tried to walk over to the other driver, but Phil and the lady stopped me.
An ambulance turned up, and they checked us over, our pulses were high and they were concerned about my chest pains. They had to call the fire brigade because the Fiesta's airbags hadn't gone off! They were really concerned about Phil becuase he was pretty much fine, he was getting agitiated about getting the stuff out of the car and the roof back on before they took it away.
They said I had to go to A&E so I got another ride in an ambulance, this time sat up and conscious, which was fun! Before this, the police took statements and breathalised Phil. They asked if we would be happy to prosecute the other driver.
We were both in A&E for ages. They were determined to find something up with Phil. He was fine and with me being so in pain, I think they thought he was being a hero. Phil says he is so used to Karting incidents like this that he was prepared for it. I'm often more breakable, and also seemed to take most of the impact on my side :/
X ray done, and fortunately fine, we came home and posted on the internet. We then watched the GP because I knew exactly what i'd see when I closed my eyes and tried to sleep so made sure I was completely exhausted before I went to bed.
I couldn't roll over in the night because of the pain and can't physically lift my upper body up :/
We've made a list of the salvageable parts of the car, so hope to get those back! He had a lovely steering wheel, and seats along with all the usual performance bits :/
I can still hear the bang from when we hit the car :/
