As it turns out, I made a poor decision. The route I normally take was congested,, so I took one of the two secondary routes that I have. And I chose the wrong one.
I knew that the route I didn’t choose had some roadwork on it, which was the reason I took the route I did. Unfortunately, I ended up in an accident. The lady in the car in front of be broke suddenly and unexpectedly when a person in the second lane indicated to come into our lane. Had he followed through with this, he’d have at best cut her up and at worst hit her. But he didn’t actually move across.
Still, it’s understandable why she broke. I would have done.
We weren’t going very fast, no more than about 25mph, but I didn’t have time to stop, and I ended up rear-ending her. Her car was hardly damaged, such was the low-speed nature of the crash, but because I drive a Merc C-class, with its famous crumple zones, mine came off much worse.
Hopefully, it’s repairable.
I was quite shaken up. The airbags went off, both the one in the steering wheel and the one below the steering column designed to protect your legs. My knee was hurt, although not as bad as if the airbag hadn’t been there, and I now need to see a specialist about it.
So I’ve had a bad week. Pretty bad.
Hopefully next week will be better, starting with, I hope, good news about the car.
