That car is a goner. I needed new front wheels but it wasn't worth it since I was giving the car up soon. Yeah right? That was smart of me.
It was complicated. A woman lost control coming on the highway. It's a weird intersection that is hard to describe but on the right, where I was arriving from, is a downhill incline, two lanes merging into one and than that one lane is joined on the right by another road coming off a roundabout. It merges and then there's another off ramp on the right, but the rest of it goes into three lanes and the highway stops.
Now, if I explained that this is a good place to get in an accident, would you find that hard to believe? You can't really see what a mess it is on a map. Just looks like an off ramp.
A young girl arriving from the left, off the roundabout loses control of her car and does a 180. Another women puts on her hazards and stops to help her. The second woman is in a big car and there isn't much room for it on the side of the road. As you can see from the picture, it's raining. This has created a bit of a slow down on the off ramp but it was hard to see. A driver behind me gets irratated and trys to bypass me and about three other cars. There isn't room for him and the other drivers have to break. Or at least, that's why I thought they were breaking, until I was too close to the SUV to get out of the way.
French lanes are narrow and I'm going downhill in the rain, with Davina in the car. I'm afraid of swearving. I can only break and limit the damage.
To add to it all, there is open water to our right. Right there to our right. I get Davina out of the car because I can't risk it being hit again (very likely, remember, very little room) and she was completely unphased. The impact wasn't too much but horay for my 5-point brand new Radian seat that Laura dragged back from the States for me! It really kept her strapped in. I hate to see three year olds in boosters and am so glad mine wasn't! This seat will actually keep Davina in a 5 point harness at least until she's 5 years old.
Now technically this seat is not legal in France. Well, the policeman helped install it in his car so no, I'm not worried about getting "in trouble" for having Davina in this thing. There are no 5 point harnesses for over 40lbs kids here in France anyway.
Here she is post accident, in the police car!
No worse for the wear, and she found the siren too cool (like it was really necessary-ahem!)
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