Climbing Accidents

Our world is made up of many different experiences.  Whether they are good or bad, we find ourselves being defined by the choices we make.  It is within these experiences that we can find out who we are as people. 

On May 13th, 2007 at 1:00 a.m my world stopped.  I had constantly told myself nothing bad could happen to me.  I was only 18. However, I was in for a rude awakening.  With each step I found myself feeling as if I shouldn’t go. It was as if there was something wrong with this scenario. The blur of a party scene plays out, much like the ones before.  When my ride had bailed I looked to my significant other.  My brother and I had curfew and we couldn’t be late.

As I stepped out of the car to get in the front seat, I found that strange feeling of dread engulf me.  It was as if my house was screaming at me to come home.  I ignored every instinct in my body except the urge to put my seatbelt on.  Little did I know this would be the best decision I had made in my life.  We stopped at the first stop sign with ease, like a habit you couldn’t kick.  It wasn’t until we reached the end of my street that I realized how much I wanted to be home.  

The intensity of the car was suffocating to the point that my heart begged to get out. The rain pounded and the speedometer increased.  With the next stop sign in sight, I found relief. However, this time no relief would be in sight.  As quickly as we had gotten to the stop sign it passed.  A blur of light in my eyes, as my head lifted to see what was happening.  It was then that life was complicated.  With a hit to every side of my head my breath was gone, and I realized that this could be the end of everything.  

My mouth unable to scream, I turned to panic.  I hear screaming around me but see no one.  It is then that I realize it is me screaming. Screaming to get out of the car, I find the remnants of a door, and a hole to climb out of. Like the scene from a horror film, the night plays out.  As the rain flows down my face I wipe it away.  Kneeling on the ground, I hold my head in my hands. I look up from my hands and the blood just drips down my arm.  It is then that I realize that my life has changed.

That night changed everything.  I lost my will to leave the house, hangout with friends, and eat. A large depression had set in.  I had never cried so much in my life.  Physically and emotionally bruised and broken, I realized that I had the power to move beyond this.  With every step I found myself appreciating the world around me.  However, with every serious incident that occurs you have to choose your reaction.  I realized that I wouldn’t be able to do this on my own.  Seeking therapy and someone to confide in I found myself feeling relieved.  It wasn’t until I really understood how to deal with this happening that I could move beyond it.  

I look back now and find that I would never take back this experience. It is this particular experience that has made me a better person.  I had always taken things for granted when I was younger, but now I find myself living each day with sincerity.  We are only as strong as we allow ourselves to be.  I chose to remain strong and hope that anyone who hits a wall, no matter how big or small, finds a way to make it positive. In the end we only have experiences to look back on, and you should never allow the happenings of the past to ruin you.

1. You start speaking five languages all at once.

 

2. You answer your own questions.

 

3. You start responding to anyone on TV.

 

4. You decide to quit your job and become a professional wrestler.

 

5. You try eating the local plant life.

 

6. You can no longer remember how to ride a bike.

 

7. You wonder whatever happened to the man who discovered America.

 

8. You enter a casino and start yelling, “I won.”

 

9. You climb a tree and pretend to be a vulture.

 

10. You decide to sleep under a freeway with the other nice people.

 

Now here are ten useful tips of advice from a bicycle accident lawyer to follow if you have been in an accident. You can also learn more about how to handle a bicycle accident in National City, or any city, by calling the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson at any of the numbers which can be found on our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learning how we can assist you.

 

Obviously, if you have had an accident, and you are reading all of this advice, it’s probably been at least a few days since the accident. However, if it’s only been a few hours or if you ever have another accident, here’s what you should do the next time from the start.

 

First, take a look around and determine if you or anyone, are hurt. If so, taking steps like trying to prevent further injury or loss of blood are the most important thing you can do. Even if some other driver caused you to be injured, it’s just good manners to help the other driver if they are hurt. They may even be so thankful that they admit their fault to you. The worst thing you can do is get angry or start a fight.

 

Second, make sure everyone is safe from being injured further. If you are in the middle of traffic, and you are dizzy, sit down away from traffic. If your vehicle is a traffic hazard and you have accident warning devices like flares or triangles, put them out on the road to warn other drivers and get away from the car. Let the police an other emergency personnel investigate the scene with the vehicles in place and move them more safely at a later point.

 

Third, call the police. Accident reports are extremely helpful if the police will do such a report. Let the police know you are injured immediately. Answer the police questions honestly. But if you are dazed or confused, let them know you need medical treatment and answer only what you feel sure about. Remember, your statements can and will be used against you if you admit fault, and it will be too late and too fishy to later say you didn’t know what you were saying at the scene. Police know that your best recollection is immediately after an accident.

 

Fourth, get the other driver’s information including their names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, make and model of their vehicles, license plate numbers, and their insurance company name and policy number. If there are witnesses, get their names, addresses and telephone numbers as well. If the other driver makes any admissions of fault, write those down as well.

 

Fifth, if you have a camera on your cell phone or in the car and you aren’t too injured, take some photos of the vehicles and the scene. If you can’t do it right away, do it after you are released from the hospital.

Sixth, if you are hurt, obtain medical treatment. Don’t decline the ambulance or hospital examination to save your insurance company money or to be stoic. Take your valuables out of your car if you can and get checked out at the hospital. If you are not hurt, don’t get treatment you don’t need. However, remember, after an accident, you may feel a rush of adrenaline that causes you to only start feeling symptoms of pain a few hours later. If you have a health plan that requires you to obtain permission first, call them and find out where you are allowed to seek treatment.

 

Seventh, call a good bicycle accident lawyer as soon as you have had your initial treatment, so the attorney can gather other important evidence and prevent the insurance company from taking advantage of you and obtaining such things as recorded statements that you feel fine, when many of your symptoms have yet to manifest themselves. A good bicycle accident lawyer can save you from making a great deal of mistakes and can shoulder much of the hassle of knowing what to do about car repairs, car rentals, medical treatment, witness statements and the like. If you think you will save money by not having an attorney, think again. A good bicycle accident lawyer can almost always obtain much higher settlements, obtain reductions of medical bills and insurance liens and prevent you from making costly mistakes. Also, most bicycle accident attorneys advance costs of obtaining police reports, medical records and the like and are paid and reimbursed for these costs only out of any settlement.

 

Eight, you will need to report the accident to your insurance company, but since they will want to take a recorded statement from you, just like any other driver’s insurance company, it’s good advice to retain an attorney first. And if the other driver did not have insurance, remember that it is your own insurance company that will be your adversary. You will also need to report the accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles and your lawyer can give you the form for this.

 

Ninth, do not agree to settle your claim privately with the person at fault for the accident. This almost never works out to your advantage. Don’t agree not to call the police. Police reports that determine the fault for an accident are golden. Your agreement to not involve the police only affords an opportunity for the other driver to change his story and blame you when the police will no longer investigate the accident.

 

Tenth, don’t pay a traffic ticket without a fight if you weren’t at fault or agree to accept a small payment for your vehicle repairs without knowing that the amount will in fact cover the cost of all the repairs.

 

If you’ve had a bicycle accident in National City, Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, Coronado, Spring Valley, San Diego, La Mesa, National City, Carlsbad, Oceanside, La Jolla, Del Mar, Escondido, Chula Vista, El Cajon, Vista, San Marcos, or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your San Diego Bicycle Accident Lawyer and your National City Bicycle Accident Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with auto, motorcycle, truck, bicycle, pedestrian, car, bus, train, boat and airplane accident experience, wrongful death experience and insurance law expertise who can ensure you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have a personal injury legal matter, a dog bite or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death accident, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.

1. How’s your day so far?

 

2. Oh my, that doesn’t look good at all.

 

3. This is probably going to hurt.

 

4. Are you in pain?

 

5. I’ll be you’d rather be somewhere else, huh?

 

6. This isn’t your day, is it?

 

7. Wrong day to get out of bed, huh?

 

8. I hope you like bed rest.

 

9. You can kiss off any plans to go rock climbing.

 

10. This may put your career in professional wrestling on hold.

 

Now, here are ten useful tips of advice from an auto accident lawyer to follow if you have been in an accident. You can also learn more about how to handle an auto accident in Redondo Beach, or any city, by calling the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson at any of the numbers which can be found on our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learning how we can assist you.

 

Obviously, if you have had an accident, and you are reading all of this advice, it’s probably been at least a few days since the accident. However, if it’s only been a few hours or if you ever have another accident, here’s what you should do the next time from the start.

 

First, take a look around and determine if you or anyone, are hurt. If so, taking steps like trying to prevent further injury or loss of blood are the most important thing you can do. Even if some other driver caused you to be injured, it’s just good manners to help the other driver if they are hurt. They may even be so thankful that they admit their fault to you. The worst thing you can do is get angry or start a fight.

 

Second, make sure everyone is safe from being injured further. If you are in the middle of traffic, and you are dizzy, sit down away from traffic. If your vehicle is a traffic hazard and you have accident warning devices like flares or triangles, put them out on the road to warn other drivers and get away from the car. Let the police an other emergency personnel investigate the scene with the vehicles in place and move them more safely at a later point.

 

Third, call the police. Accident reports are extremely helpful if the police will do such a report. Let the police know you are injured immediately. Answer the police questions honestly. But if you are dazed or confused, let them know you need medical treatment and answer only what you feel sure about. Remember, your statements can and will be used against you if you admit fault, and it will be too late and too fishy to later say you didn’t know what you were saying at the scene. Police know that your best recollection is immediately after an accident.

 

Fourth, get the other driver’s information including their names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, make and model of their vehicles, license plate numbers, and their insurance company name and policy number. If there are witnesses, get their names, addresses and telephone numbers as well. If the other driver makes any admissions of fault, write those down as well.

 

Fifth, if you have a camera on your cell phone or in the car and you aren’t too injured, take some photos of the vehicles and the scene. If you can’t do it right away, do it after you are released from the hospital.

Sixth, if you are hurt, obtain medical treatment. Don’t decline the ambulance or hospital examination to save your insurance company money or to be stoic. Take your valuables out of your car if you can and get checked out at the hospital. If you are not hurt, don’t get treatment you don’t need. However, remember, after an accident, you may feel a rush of adrenaline that causes you to only start feeling symptoms of pain a few hours later. If you have a health plan that requires you to obtain permission first, call them and find out where you are allowed to seek treatment.

 

Seventh, call a good auto accident lawyer as soon as you have had your initial treatment, so the attorney can gather other important evidence and prevent the insurance company from taking advantage of you and obtaining such things as recorded statements that you feel fine, when many of your symptoms have yet to manifest themselves. A good auto accident lawyer can save you from making a great deal of mistakes and can shoulder much of the hassle of knowing what to do about car repairs, car rentals, medical treatment, witness statements and the like. If you think you will save money by not having an attorney, think again. A good auto accident lawyer can almost always obtain much higher settlements, obtain reductions of medical bills and insurance liens and prevent you from making costly mistakes. Also, most auto accident attorneys advance costs of obtaining police reports, medical records and the like and are paid and reimbursed for these costs only out of any settlement.

 

Eight, you will need to report the accident to your insurance company, but since they will want to take a recorded statement from you, just like any other driver’s insurance company, it’s good advice to retain an attorney first. And if the other driver did not have insurance, remember that it is your own insurance company that will be your adversary. You will also need to report the accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles and your lawyer can give you the form for this.

 

Ninth, do not agree to settle your claim privately with the person at fault for the accident. This almost never works out to your advantage. Don’t agree not to call the police. Police reports that determine the fault for an accident are golden. Your agreement to not involve the police only affords an opportunity for the other driver to change his story and blame you when the police will no longer investigate the accident.

 

Tenth, don’t pay a traffic ticket without a fight if you weren’t at fault or agree to accept a small payment for your vehicle repairs without knowing that the amount will in fact cover the cost of all the repairs.

 

If you’ve had an auto accident in Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson, Brentwood, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Santa Monica, Venice, Long Beach, Marina del Rey, Camarillo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Oxnard, Cambria or San Luis Obispo, or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Redondo Beach Auto Accident Lawyer and your Torrance Auto Accident Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with auto, motorcycle, truck, bicycle, pedestrian, car, bus, train, boat and airplane accident experience, wrongful death experience and insurance law expertise who can ensure you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have a personal injury legal matter, a dog bite or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death accident, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.

She finished her night shift at the hospital in which she worked and climbed into her Nissan to return home to her children. On the way, however, she was struck by a drunk driver in a Mercedes. The driver was also a resident of Bakersfield and nearly middle-aged. When the Mercedes struck the nurse’s Nissan, the smaller car was sent crashing into a wall. The nurse was killed almost instantly, being declared dead on the scene. She never made it home to her two young children that night. They are ages 11 and 8, and one of them is mentally handicapped.The nurse took the precaution to wear her seatbelt that fateful night last weekend, but it did not save her life and did not save her children the anguish of losing a mother. The drunk driver of the Mercedes, in contrast, received minimal injuries. She was immediately taken to jail and may be charged with felony drunk driving and gross vehicular manslaughter for the crime she has committed. The woman’s negligence and reckless behavior were the direct causes behind the nurse’s demise, making the drunk driver liable for the death of this mother of two.It doesn’t seem fair that this responsible nurse and mother was killed in an accident caused by a drunk driver. It doesn’t seem fair that the drunk driver was able to walk away virtually scratch-free. Yet accidents like these occur every single day throughout the United States. It is because of these accidents like these resulting the wrongful death of an innocent victim that personal injury attorneys are so necessary. Personal injury attorneys in Bakersfield California can help ease the financial burden left on families following the death of a loved one. They can also help families received the resources they need to help them through the grieving process that naturally follows death.Although there is nothing that a Bakersfield personal injury attorney could do to bring this nurse back to her family and friends, a lawyer can help provide financial relief to the survivors left behind after wrongful deaths such as hers. Many monetary responsibilities are placed on family members when a loved one passes away. The average minimal cost of funeral arrangements today is approximately $6,000, a sum that most Americans cannot afford to pay without proper warning and preparation. However, deaths like that of this nurse and mother of two occur without any kind of warning or preparation. Personal injury attorneys help their clients receive the monetary compensation they need to cover these burdensome expenses so that they can focus their energies on mourning and accepting their new life without the loved one that has passed on.