[QUOTE=Angel of the Lord] Monkey, I don’t mean to be a buzzkill–and I’m glad you’re ok!–but you may want to check in with your doctor or the ER or something anyway. My understanding of accidents is that some injuries can take a while to manifest, while others can be masked by the feeling of relief and shock that happens when you realize that, hey, you’re not road pizza. And if it just happened this morning, well. . .you know. Better safe than sorry.
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Famed race driver Mark Donohue died after an accident which was seemingly benign. Turned out he had a few busted blood vessels in the head and after complaining of a headache for a few hours, he collapsed and died several hours later in the hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. So I think AotL’s caution is well founded, tho if the paramedics checked you out good I’m sure you’re fine.
Glad to hear that you feel fine. I’m with Sapo: don’t do that again!
I will pipe up to second the idea that you should go get checked out at the ER. And I mean today, right now, not tomorrow. Chances are pretty good that, if you’re up and walking around, you’re most likely fine. OTOH, it’s still entirely possible that you’ve been injured in a way that won’t necessarily manifest itself until later. Given the risk/reward ratio of not going, and finding out the hard way that you have an serious injury that should be monitored vs “wasting” a couple-three hours in the ER just to be safe - I’d pack a book, a snack bar, and a jacket, and go pay my local hospital a visit.
JustAnotherGeek,
EMT-Paramedic
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I hearily second Just Another Geek’s recommendation. My sister was leaving the races at Daytona several years ago and she got hit in the head by a 4X8 board which some moron had failed to remove from the roof of his RV, knocking her unconscious. She was taken to the OR of course and they stitched up her scalp and pronounced her OK. She seemed OK and felt OK. A day or 2 later my mother, who’s a former RN, noticed that one of her pupils had shrunk to a pinpoint. My mom immediately rushed her to the ER, where a scan revealed that she had a cerebral hemmorhage and blood was pooling at the bottom of her brain. She immediately had surgery, and was OK because of it, but the docs said that if she hadn’t had the surgery in a timely fashion, she might easily have died.
Those traumatic accidents are nothing to fool around with.
I got whiplash 15 years ago. I still have pains. I didn’t think anything was wrong. It developed over a period of a week, but I was too busy to get it checked out.
I was stupid.
I’ve been poisoned, stabbed, shot, hanged, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered by my people. And I still came back! It wasn’t until I crossed paths with Bill Murray that my luck ran out.
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85mph? Yeah, that was Firestone’s fault.
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You bring up a good point, tires are designed to come off when you hit 85 mph. Good thing he wasn’t doing 90, as the Ford Ranger is designed to explode at that speed. It’s a safety feature.
I’m sure he would be partly liable for exceeding the speed limit. On this page it says that exceeding the speed limit is “not recommended” by tire manufacturers. However, about halfway down there’s a speed rating table, with examples in the right hand column. The example for an 87 mph rating is “temporary spare tires.”
I’m so glad you’re OK, and sorry you had to miss the funeral.
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Two bad things: I only have liability insurance, so if I don’t get any money out of Firestone, I’m going to have to eat the loss.
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There may be an upside. If you have any sort of charisma, you might have a television career doing PSAs for seatbelt use, or as a spokesman for Ford.
Now close the thread. Never a good idea to blab about lawsuits in progress, especially when you reveal facts (like your speed) that aren’t in your favor.
