The Car Crash….(True Story)

I was only six and my grandmother, grandpa jim, and cousin were going to visit Jims parents. We drove to Tennesse and had a great time visiting Jimmy’s parents. On the night we were driving home it started to rain. Jim was worrdied so he tried to “help” grandma drive by telling her how to. But she was driving fine. It was getting late and Carlie had already fallen asleep. I was getting drowsy but I was still up.
I remember it so cleary for some reason. Grandma told Jim to stop telling her how to drive. He didn’t want to listen he thought he was helping. Jim said “Slow down Jo Ellen.” So grandma slammed on the breaks. We skidded across the road with the slick tires. I watched as we went end over end into a ditch. for some reason the car toppled more on Grandma and I side than it did on Jim and Carlie’s side. I was knocked unconcious.
I woke to find that I was still by the car only I was in an ambulance. Carlie was next to me. I was wearing a neck brace and from what I remember she wasn’t. I never found out where Jim was. They had rushed Grandma to the nearest hospital, took care her there for a while then by helicopter sent her to the hospital in Tampa, Florida. Since florida is where we all lived mom went quick to see her. Carlie was the most lucky out of all of us. But in the line of injury, Grandma had it the worst, then me, then Carlie. I’m not sure if grandpa had injuries at all.
Carlie had only a scratch on her thumb, which they cleaned and put a bandaid on. I had a piece of glass in my arm, which they took out cleaned my cut and gave me a stitch or two. Grandma was in ICU, they had to put stitches and staples in the back of her head. They had to do something to her arm, what I’m just not quite sure of. She had tons of Pyshical Therapy.
They say the reason Carlie and I didn’t have worst injuries was because we didn’t try to brace ourselves for impact. And because Carlie was sleeping and I was drowsy we didn’t panic so they said that saved us too. Also I found out that if we had skidded the other way, we would have fallen off a 15,000ft cliff. Now everytime I look at grandma I get a flashback of the car skidding across the road….