Black Friday is supposed to be a day of fighting off strangers for the items you would like to purchase. My Black Friday was a little bit different then that. It started out as a normal work day. I went to work, I left early, around 1. Went to the bank to cash my check for my weekend of shopping, then home to clean my room and get ready to go to the movies with JoAnne and her family. The movie was great and very funny. Movie ended and I hopped into JoAnne's car, and we headed to the mall for some super shopping at the Harford Mall. We left Regal and made the left onto Tollgate RD., the light at Tollgate and 24 was backed up. We took Tollgate up to Wheel RD, where we proceeded to make a left onto 24. If you are familiar with this intersection, you would know there is no turn light if you are traveling on Wheel RD., so making a left is almost impossible. We were in the middle of the intersection and the man who was making a left on the other side of Wheel RD. towards Edgewood flashed his lights and told us it was safe for us to proceed with our turn. Just as we made the turn a woman driving a gold Ford Explorer who was traveling on Wheel RD. going straight, SLAMMED right into the front right side of JoAnne's car. Air bags deployed, horn was blaring, kids crying, JoAnne screaming GET OUT OF THE CAR, was all i could hear. I've always heard people say that you see your life flash before your eyes, and I never believed it, well I AM A BELIEVER NOW. The entire accident was in slow motion. Thank GOD for seat belts and my life. I had most of the injury's due to the point of impact, but I walked away with some bumps and bruises. JoAnne has some bumps and bruises also, the kids didn't have one scratch on them, and the people in the other car were scratch less also. We were lucky it wasn't worse, hopefully they will install a turn signal at the intersection now.
For pics of the accident http://www.flickr.com/photos/36513531@N00/
p.s. this was nov. 28, 2006
