I posted this in fellowship forum, but in case you don't venture there often:
Three of my friends and I were involved in a car accident last night as we were leaving our Ottawa Youth for Life meeting. A driver was going way too fast for the icy conditions and didn't make his right turn properly. Instead, as he zipped around the corner, he plowed right into the side of us. Everyone is alive, but my head has been really hurting from the sharp force and jolt of the blow. Chris, the driver hit his head against his window, but he says he's fine. I suffer with a very sensitive head and lots of headaches at normal times, and I really don't travel well - any slight jerk or rapid change in movement (even someone hitting the breaks hard, can trigger pounding pinching headaches...so I didn't fare so well.
Neither did the car which was rendered undriveable (front left wheel broken and bent right in) repairs will cost over 1500$ according to a rough over-the-phone estimate. If the guesstimate is wrong and the car is a write-off, Chris will be very stuck since he lives just past Kemptville and needs his car for his second job delivering pizza. He cannot do without a car, even just to get himself the twenty minute drive from Kemptville to his main work in Merrickville... His poor car is old and had already been giving him so much trouble.
But it's also sad for the driver who hit us since he was driving illegally - without insurance (he'd cancelled it because it was too expensive). Now the repairs, the cost of towing, and the cost of the rental car which has been supplied to Chris for however long it takes to get his car back in order, will eventually have to come out of his pocket since the damage was high enough that police had to get involved... that's what you get for trying to save money by cheating the system. Plus now that the police know the truth, he could be fined up to $5,000 for driving without insurance!
Anyhow, if you could pray for complete and rapid healing of my head, for insurance and money problems to solve themselves (that Chris won't have to pay the $300 deductible out of his pocket since he's really broke himself, and that the car can be fixed and won't be a right-off since he can't afford to buy a new car and certainly not with the insurance money he'd get for his 1990 Ford... he still owes $3000 to the family friend who gave him the car)
Also pray for Chris as he contacts the man who hit us, to let him know that the damage was more extensive and police had to get invloved - the man left before we'd tried to drive the car and had agreed to pay for what he thought at the time was just body repair. I guess you could pray for that man and his wife and daughter who will likely be kicking themselves for a long time, as they make payments to Chris' insurance company, for having cut theirs. I don't know where they are spiritually, but they need the comfort of Christ. I do know they are recent immigrants, he is a student and she works at a hotel to make the family's ends meet. This is really hard on everyone involved here.
Thanks,
Kristine
Three of my friends and I were involved in a car accident last night as we were leaving our Ottawa Youth for Life meeting. A driver was going way too fast for the icy conditions and didn't make his right turn properly. Instead, as he zipped around the corner, he plowed right into the side of us. Everyone is alive, but my head has been really hurting from the sharp force and jolt of the blow. Chris, the driver hit his head against his window, but he says he's fine. I suffer with a very sensitive head and lots of headaches at normal times, and I really don't travel well - any slight jerk or rapid change in movement (even someone hitting the breaks hard, can trigger pounding pinching headaches...so I didn't fare so well.
Neither did the car which was rendered undriveable (front left wheel broken and bent right in) repairs will cost over 1500$ according to a rough over-the-phone estimate. If the guesstimate is wrong and the car is a write-off, Chris will be very stuck since he lives just past Kemptville and needs his car for his second job delivering pizza. He cannot do without a car, even just to get himself the twenty minute drive from Kemptville to his main work in Merrickville... His poor car is old and had already been giving him so much trouble.
But it's also sad for the driver who hit us since he was driving illegally - without insurance (he'd cancelled it because it was too expensive). Now the repairs, the cost of towing, and the cost of the rental car which has been supplied to Chris for however long it takes to get his car back in order, will eventually have to come out of his pocket since the damage was high enough that police had to get involved... that's what you get for trying to save money by cheating the system. Plus now that the police know the truth, he could be fined up to $5,000 for driving without insurance!
Anyhow, if you could pray for complete and rapid healing of my head, for insurance and money problems to solve themselves (that Chris won't have to pay the $300 deductible out of his pocket since he's really broke himself, and that the car can be fixed and won't be a right-off since he can't afford to buy a new car and certainly not with the insurance money he'd get for his 1990 Ford... he still owes $3000 to the family friend who gave him the car)
Also pray for Chris as he contacts the man who hit us, to let him know that the damage was more extensive and police had to get invloved - the man left before we'd tried to drive the car and had agreed to pay for what he thought at the time was just body repair. I guess you could pray for that man and his wife and daughter who will likely be kicking themselves for a long time, as they make payments to Chris' insurance company, for having cut theirs. I don't know where they are spiritually, but they need the comfort of Christ. I do know they are recent immigrants, he is a student and she works at a hotel to make the family's ends meet. This is really hard on everyone involved here.
Thanks,
Kristine
