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My First Car Wreck...(and why it matters)

My niece is now 17 years old. She got into her first accident yesterday. Because she is feeling so down on herself for having gotten into her first accident, she asked my family to share their first wrecks. I figured this would be a great topic to share here...

A week before I got married to my now freak'n awesome wife, I was driving up a mountain to see her (she lived on top of a mountain and I lived at the foot of the mountain...a true knight in shining armor). This is mid-late November, so of course there were spots of snow scattered throughout the shoulder and some of it on the road. In this area, snow plows had moved the ice and snow off of the path, but there was a "runner" of snow and ice in the middle of the road. I had a brand new Hyundai Accent that I loved to speed around the turns because it handled well. I was following a Jeep that was going fast, thinking I could keep up. Silly enough, my front, driver-side tire hit the pile in the middle of the road going around a turn. It flung me around, causing my front and passenger side to smack the side of the mountain (fortunately it wasn't the side with the drop off). After it was over, my car was able to restart and it was still drivable. I finished the couple mile drive I needed to go to get to her house, spent some time with the family, and drove off the next morning. Of course, I called the insurance company, but I could drive it, so I took it back home and dropped it off at the place the insurance company told me to leave it. That's how we got a Nissan Maxima for our honeymoon car! :)

Why does any of this matter to you? It really doesn't...it's just a fun story...lol

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