Many people believe that when a person is over the age of 70, they should have their licenses taken away. I also believe that because I was in a car accident with a person over the age of 70. Drivers that are over 70 years old should not be able to drive because they could be dangerous.
The day of the accident I was driving on highway 27 in Spring Lake. I was on my way to get my car fixed from a previous accident that happened about a month before. An older man was sitting at a stop sign to the right of me waiting to go. I guess the older man thought that he could make it to the other lane, because he gunned it across the lanes. As I saw him coming, I tried to avoid his car but it was too late and we smacked into each other.
After we smacked into each other, our cars started to spin around because from how fast I was going and where our cars hit. Both of our cars stopped spinning and ended up in front of a crowded gas station. The gas station was on my left hand side before the accident. His automobile stopped about 18 feet away from a gas pump, while my automobile stopped about 10 feet away from a gas pump. After the cars stopped spinning, people ran over to help me, while others called the police. When all of those people were helping me, I realized that I was not able to feel my legs, and I thought it was from the impact of the accident and because my adrenal was pumping. .
About ten minutes after the accident, the ambulance showed up to take me to the hospital. As the paramedics got me out of my car, I looked over at the older man. He was just sitting there, not hurt, and just looking at me with a hollow look. I found out by the people at the gas station that the older man was 91 years old and that this car accident was his very first accident ever.
The ambulance took me to the ER at Cape Fear Valley Hospital. When the doctors had finished looking me over, they told me that two discs in the lower part of my back were broken.
