LizzaeMcLiz

Adrenaline Rush

I had a job interview today at Loyola College. I was making a left to get back onto St Paul. If you're familiar with the area, the roads get weird where the city basically ends and the big mansion neighborhoods begin. My interview was at 11, it was 10:50 and I was about 5 minutes away so I was going preeeetty quickly. As soon as my light turned green, I zoomed right through and made my left. Suddenly, in the read view mirrow, I see cars slam together and hear a loud SCREEEEEECH BOOM. I saw cars going everywhere and basically made the decision to stop, and throw my car into reverse. I was going so fast I almost lost control of my car, which was dumb but I think it was mostly the adrenaline. I jumped out of the car and started running up to people to make sure they were ok. Someone had run the red light, when we had the green light, and had hit the car behind mine pretty head one. There was a woman driving and her car spun out of control and hit a pole. The man who ran the red light got out and started hobbling around so I could tell he was mostly ok. I ran to the next car that was hit and there was a woman screaming MY BABY and her air bags had deflated and there was a screaming baby on the backseat. I said 'it's ok, your baby's ok' and after looking her over and seeing she seemed ok, i unbuckled the car sear and pulled the baby, in her seat, towards the door. The fumes from the airbag were in the air and someone said we needed to get her out of her car and somewhere with fresh air. I noticed the baby had blood in its mouth and I got worried but it looked like she'd just bitten her lip when the car was hit. I'm not sure how baby whip-lash works or if this baby had it but after I picked her up and started talking to her and she saw her mother, she stopped crying. The woman sat in a bystanders car and I handed her her little girl and her phone so she could call her fiance. At this point, cops and ambulances and fire trucks were showing up and I was just trying to take it all in. I called Loyola and they said to just take care of what I needed to and give them a call. The wife of the man who ran the red light showed up, he didnt speak much of any english at all, and she started interrogating me about what happened. I tried to tell her we had a green light and he didnt but he insisted he did. I told them I didnt know, maybe there was a problem with the light. After giving the police my information, I left. I called Loyola and they asked me to come back tomorrow at 3:30. I really hope this doesn't effect my chances of getting the job, heh, but who would seriously just keep going? And it's a Jesuit University. Hopefully they'll be understanding. Sigh. What an adrenaline rush.

posted by Lizzae @ 9:29 AM