I was at work this afternoon and i heard a huge pop while i was on the phone with my gf. The next thing i know my mother who is the secretary is screaming my name like she was being robbed. I look out the front garage door and see an f150 sitting side ways on the highway, i immediatly hang up the phone and start sprinting toward the crash followed by a woman who was fueling her car at the time it happend. The woman tells me as we are running toward the road that she is a nurse and i said ok im here to help as much as i can. i head towards the truck while she heads toward a ford probe sitting nose first in the canal. I made sure the guy in the truck was ok and he said he was just dazed a bit (he told me this while he was trying to stuff his air bag back into his steering wheel. id say he was a little more than dazed but no blood.) I proceed towards the probe followed by another woman who pulled over and she told me she also was a nurse. When i get to the car i see a very large older man in the drivers seat with his legs pinched under the dash and blood coming out of his hair line, nose, and mouth. i get closer to the cars door with the nurses and the guy goes into total shock, he is now moaning and shaking like a seizure, the nursed were trying to communicate with him so i couldnt really do much at that point. One nurse told to make sure someone called 911 (i turned around an yelled some one call the fucking police and like 7 people yelled back they already had). After that i started to do the only thing i knew needed to be done so i started directing traffic around the accident. It seemed like an eternity before the first cop got there but it was in reality like 5-6 min and it was a big sigh of relief to me. A construction worker going by gave me and orange flag while he passed and said i prob needed it more than he did, for the rest of the time i directed traffic until one of the 6 officers thanked me and told me i did good and he would take over. After that i just stood by on the other side of the road and watched them have to cut the older gentleman out and life flight him. It took 8 firemen to carry this guy on the gurney(sp?).
This was like a big reminder about how fast shit like that happens. im gonn have like nightmares for a week now, i can hardly even type im shaking so bad. To make it worse it was the first day of school here so all i could think when i ran to the cars was "i hope to god i dont know any of these people".