One Scary Thanksgiving
So I drove down to L.A. for Thanksgiving last Thursday. It was really nice and my dad, brother, and his fiancé cooked up the best vegetarian turkey feast ever. After getting stuffed and forgetting about all the work I was going to have to face, getting ready to go I realized the next day was "Black Friday" and I didn't have any help in the morning. I was happy to see my good friend Sanatan there at the fiest, and he didn't have anything to do the next day, so I offered to pay him cash under the table to help me for a day. He wasn't sure if he wanted to go or not, but I convinced him to come and said I really needed the help if he was willing to come up for the day.
Now the scary part.
He was fallowing me up to Santa Barbara in his car and things were going well. We were zooming along, probably too fast. I remember checking my speedometer and it was around Seventy Eight or Eighty miles per hour. We passed through Ventura and were on the 101 northbound and were on our way to Carpenteria. This is a beautiful stretch of highway that goes between the ocean and coastal bluffs on either side. I was periodically checking my rear view mirror to see if Sanatan was still behind me and I didn't lose him. Right around 11:40 p.m. I was checking my rear view mirror and Sanatan was there right behind me, then I see him drift to the center divider, then swerve sharply and lose control of his car. He swerved in to the other two lanes and went over the edge of the highway down a ravine and was out of sight. It was such a scary thing to watch. It just looked like a fatal accident. I pulled over quickly muttering Fuck over and over again. My roommate was in the passenger seat and was asleep the whole time, and when she saw I was cursing and pulling the car over quickly she asked what was going on. "Sanatan just crashed his car." As soon as I was stopped I grabbed my phone, put on the hazards and ran fast down the side of the freeway. I kept looking to the left where the ravine was to see if I could see his car, and I couldn't see it. Finally I saw lights way down there flashing. The whole time I was running towards his car I was terrified by what I was going to find, but I just kept running harder. I called his name and he yelled back and said he was ok. I made my way through the brush and saw him in his car. He was ok and had a little blood on his face but there was no visible cuts. He had gotten out to climb to the top of the ravine but he had a lot of pain in his neck and shoulder. I told him to stay put in his seat and not to move his head, in fear that if he had a neck injury it would get worse by moving it. Soon after I called 911 and the ambulance and highway patrol came. They put him in the stretcher and took him to Ventura County Medical Center. I stayed at the hospital till about three am, then went home to get rest after knowing that he was ok.
My sister came up from L.A. and stayed at the hospital all night. At 6:30 am they released him and it is a miracle, he was released with no injuries. I am still processing this information. I just remember feeling so relieved to see that he was ok when I made my way to his car.
Now the scary part.
He was fallowing me up to Santa Barbara in his car and things were going well. We were zooming along, probably too fast. I remember checking my speedometer and it was around Seventy Eight or Eighty miles per hour. We passed through Ventura and were on the 101 northbound and were on our way to Carpenteria. This is a beautiful stretch of highway that goes between the ocean and coastal bluffs on either side. I was periodically checking my rear view mirror to see if Sanatan was still behind me and I didn't lose him. Right around 11:40 p.m. I was checking my rear view mirror and Sanatan was there right behind me, then I see him drift to the center divider, then swerve sharply and lose control of his car. He swerved in to the other two lanes and went over the edge of the highway down a ravine and was out of sight. It was such a scary thing to watch. It just looked like a fatal accident. I pulled over quickly muttering Fuck over and over again. My roommate was in the passenger seat and was asleep the whole time, and when she saw I was cursing and pulling the car over quickly she asked what was going on. "Sanatan just crashed his car." As soon as I was stopped I grabbed my phone, put on the hazards and ran fast down the side of the freeway. I kept looking to the left where the ravine was to see if I could see his car, and I couldn't see it. Finally I saw lights way down there flashing. The whole time I was running towards his car I was terrified by what I was going to find, but I just kept running harder. I called his name and he yelled back and said he was ok. I made my way through the brush and saw him in his car. He was ok and had a little blood on his face but there was no visible cuts. He had gotten out to climb to the top of the ravine but he had a lot of pain in his neck and shoulder. I told him to stay put in his seat and not to move his head, in fear that if he had a neck injury it would get worse by moving it. Soon after I called 911 and the ambulance and highway patrol came. They put him in the stretcher and took him to Ventura County Medical Center. I stayed at the hospital till about three am, then went home to get rest after knowing that he was ok.
My sister came up from L.A. and stayed at the hospital all night. At 6:30 am they released him and it is a miracle, he was released with no injuries. I am still processing this information. I just remember feeling so relieved to see that he was ok when I made my way to his car.
posted by Dhananjaya at 10:09 PM
1 Comments:
oh my goodness! im so glad he is ok, and im sorry you had to go through that... i would have been bawling! hey, i miss you. its true.
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