Airbags are no joke..

This sounds scary!

I had my Ford cracked into pretty hard some years ago, the other guy was fooling with his phone (which really pissed me off!) and he was super apologetic about it. Boy was I pissed!

Stay off the phone and command the road dummies, nobody wants to die because you are chatting with your buddies!

Still in pain, about the same as the day after. The day it happened there was very little pain but it got worse over the next couple of days. Today it's starting to abate. I was blessed with really good genetics - at 67, I can outwork guys half my age, but for some reason I've broken several ribs in my lifetime - never an arm or leg though. Whenever I got hit in the ribs either from sports or some work activity, I've either broken or bruised ribs. I've learned to sleep on my back and not sneeze. I don't think I've got broken ribs now but probably bone bruises.

No on suing the other driver. Nothing permanent, just a couple of weeks of discomfort most likely.

The girl who hit me is very young, and as several days went by, I think I've pieced together exactly what happened. While you're reading this, it won't seem to make sense, but hold on -

So I was on a two lane road heading north doing about 20mph as I slowed for a right hand 90 degree turn about 50 feet away, and the girl who hit me was coming out of the street I was planning on turning into to. Huh you say? "If she's on your right, how did she hit you on the left side??" Well, I was about 30 feet from the intersection and there was a car right ahead of me also signaling for the same right hand turn. The girl in the Honda Pilot pulled out of the side street and made a left turn to head south, but never straightened out. In other words, she did a 180 and swung around and hit me in the front/left front fender stopping my car dead (and probably pushing me back as well as into the right hand curb.

She was profusely apologetic over and over and said she was having trouble with the steering on the Honda, how she had it worked on recently, had just put in power steering fluid, was going to sue Honda, yada yada yada.

My guess is that she pulled out too quickly (there was a car coming from her right side), the steering didn't return to center, and she panicked and hit the gas pedal completing the 180 and hitting me hard enough to total both cars.

My first thought as my ears were ringing from the bags and choking on the talc cloud in the car was that it was either a drunk driver, a driver running from the cops, or a hit on me for being a jerk on Moviechat..