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[quote=Anonymous]Yes.

I was driving a 12 year old Jeep Cherokee Sport in 2WD without traction control in the Chicago suburbs. I was on a 3 hour drive home from visiting my boyfriend, and I was on the interstate but within 10 minutes of my house. The exit was on the left, so I got in the left lane.

Oh, I should also say, my mom was on speaker phone. I'd been talking to her hands-free for about half an hour, which wasn't unusual to make the time go faster on the drives. It had been clear and dry the whole way.

It had just started to snow, and within a minute, I hit a slick patch and spun out across 4 lanes of interstate traffic. I had slowed down to about 50 mph already. My car spun twice and then a large box truck (thank God not a semi), hit me head on as I was facing the wrong way in traffic. My mom heard the whole thing. Oh, and the car was black which she has some superstitions about/her husband is named after an uncle that died in a black car accident and his mom always made him promise not to get a black car.

After hitting the truck, the Jeep did another half spin and came to a stop in thr far right lane. I still have no idea how I didn't get hit by more cars. Obviously airbags deployed, car was totalled, dash had crushed in, and I was in shock. I did have the presence of mind to shout to my mom I was okay, the phone had flown out of the cradle across the dash. I just sat unable to move as the truck driver ran to my door to check on me.

I was just really numb. I was able to get out of the car on my own but was essentially oblivious to what was going on.

Cops came, let me get my suitcase out of the back of the car, and then put me in the cop car. I remember they asked if I had anything dangerous in my suitcase and I had to tell them I had a pineapple in there because I had stopped at the grocery store halfway home to stretch my legs and picked up some things for the week. They also patted me down on the side of the road. I guess it was cold but I don't remember it.

I had some wrist and knee pain, and I really messed up my lower back/hips which is still an issue 10 years later. Nothing seemed that serious at the time and i still would classify it as getting off extremely lucky.

Cop drove me home and gave me a ticket for "failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident." Okie dokie.

I ended up and going to stay with my parents for about a week after the accident, they came and picked me up that night. I lived in an area where I really needed a car, it was the dead of winter, and I was kind of shaken up. They helped me find a replacement car.

About 6 months after the accident I woke up one morning and legitimately could not walk, seemingly out of the blue. I lived alone and had to crawl to the bathroom, and I remember it being extremely difficult to put on pants. I was able to get upright just enough to drive myself to a chiropractor (had never been before) and was at least able to walk after the session and then it took a couple months to get back to "normal." I have tried exercises, stretching, all kinds of stuff, and chiropractic (which I am generally a skeptic of) is the only thing that keeps my lower back and left wrist in check. I can skip a few months, so it isn't like a weekly thing, but then it takes me several weeks to get back to good, so I usually go for a really basic adjustment once a week ish. You can see the misalignment on an xray when it gets to the point of being painful.

Mentally it made me terrified of driving in inclement weather. I ended up leaving Chicago a couple years later and moving to a warm weather state. It wasn't the reason, but it was a really, really nice benefit to rid myself of having to deal with that. And even now, I try to avoid driving if reasonably possible when it is heavy rain (which can be harder than snow!).
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