Today I Was Hit By A Car

[Nikki Carter]

His morning when I went for a run I was hit by a car. It was between my 7th and 8th km, I was at an intersection and when the sign switched for me to go I continued running. A car in the lane closest to me kept stopping, then going, then stopping, then going. Until finally they settled on going while I was crossing. I saw the car out of the corner of my eye and tucked my knees up as it hit me and rolled as cross the hood, I landed on my feet and kept running. He car sped off.

But here's where it gets weird/sad. I didn't keep running because it had barely hurt me, I kept running because I was afraid that it was my fault. My first thoughts were about how I should have known that the car was going to do that; that I was the reason why it hit me. I was scared that the driver would get out and start yelling at me. I was afraid I'd be attacked, I was afraid someone would hurt me again because I couldn't read their mind.

I thought that I had made a lot of progress, that I could see instances where I fell into the victim mindset ahead of time and counter them. But I didn't see getting hit by a car coming.

 

[SeptemViginti]

Oh wow that is so scary you were hit by a car, I can imagine what feelings I could be feeling after sitting with that for a while. I don't run often, though I like to bike commute and I see life threatened by vehicles every day. Whenever I come across a near collision I try to always stop for posterity. At some point I learned that if I stopped and made it obvious I was stopping, and never letting the vehicle wave me in front of them, always insisting that they go before it is safe for me to cross had a greater effect of keeping me safe and more positively influencing a potentially dangerous interaction.

Like I said, I don't run, though I can imagine this happens to you far more often that it does to me. I have dreamed of what it would be like to roll off the hood of a car and how I would try to react in that situation, just because it has come so close to my reality that I feel I must be prepared for the inevitable when I can keep on like a superhero human being as you did!

I sincerely hope there is no physical damage lurking around there.

 

[Nikki Carter]

Oh wow that is so scary you were hit by a car, I can imagine what feelings I could be feeling aft...

Thank you, I have bruises on my thigh and chin where I was hit, but otherwise I don't seem to have any major injuries.

 

[One step at a time]

How are you feeling about it now?

It sounds like you have made a lot of progress - despite your initial, automatic response, you are able to look back and see that you were not at fault. That sounds pretty cool!

 

[Deleted member 37085]

His morning when I went for a run I was hit by a car. It was between my 7th and 8th km, I was at a...

@Nikki Carter be sure to have yourself medically checked out and the reason I hope you do is I was hit on my bicycle on 5/5/12 by a motor vehicle and even though I was taken by ambulance from scene (dissociated two or more times during collision) to emerg. room, e.r. found even after x-rays (of wrong places) that I was ok. Seems like two days or so (?) later my left knee that hurt immediately after crash continued to hurt worse and worse (taking hyaluronic acid knee injections (5) every 6 mths at Osteo Relief Institute here in Lexington, KY. And vehicular accidents broke two ribs on right side; blew two discs (bulging) in back; and injured and caused arthritis to set in throughout many places in my body. He kept on going up the street and later stopped. Heavily trafficked area and don't know if he was stopped or if he stopped himself. So my cautionary story of being checked out in e.r. to later find out that I was injured permanently in left knee, back, and now arthritis throughout body hopefully will help you if and only if you start having pain to get medically checked out. JadesJewel

 

[Nikki Carter]

How are you feeling about it now?

It sounds like you have made a lot of progress - d...

I feel much better about it now, I reported it to the RCMP and they have been looking into it.

Thank you :)

 

[Nikki Carter]

@Nikki Carter be sure to have yourself medically checked out and the reason I hop...

I went to the doctor like you recommended, I'm having x-rays and an ultrasound done this week, and I have to book my physio appointments since my knee hasn't responded well to living like before the car hit.