matty2013
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Before I begin, I am perfectly fine, no injuries but just sore muscles from tensing up before the crash.
This happened to me 11am yesterday, I was going east on the 40 and I got off at the Ste-Marie exit(where the Coliseum is). This pothole is right at the beginning of the exit so you have very little chance to slow down, I was probably doing 90 by the time I arrived at the hole.
I applied the brakes right before it, hit the pothole and it threw my car into the cement divider on the left, spun the car 180 degrees(I was facing the highway again), at this point I had downshifted to 3rd gear and was trying to recover from the slide, but kept sliding sideways into the snow/ice that borders the off ramp.
The back end went up in the air, rolled over on its nose and landed upside down. (This was according to a witness, it's hard to describe what the car looked like since I was inside. As for the part about being nose down at some point, thats what the guy said and it seems like it based on the huge imprint in the snow in front of the car)
Once the car stopped moving, I was hanging upside down by my seatbelt. I assessed myself for injuries before propping myself against the roof before taking off my seatbelt, I gathered my cellphone, school bag and sunglasses(it was sunny out I figured I'd need them). I was able to push my door open and climb out.
I took these pictures immediately after it happened, as you can see none of the emergency response teams had arrived yet.
Ambulance cleared me yesterday, but recommended I go to the hospital anyway. I refused, but then I ended up going today anyway, and I'm perfectly fine(they even checked for internal bleeding)
So my advice to everyone, wear your seatbelt! Because I never would have expected such a thing to happen on such a simple manoeuvre as exiting from the highway.
The condition of our roads in this province is sickening, and it had not occurred to me until today that I could have died.
I have yet to contact the city of Kirkland, but this kind of negligence on their part should not go unpunished.
TL;DR My car got fucked by a pothole the size of a small pond.
This happened to me 11am yesterday, I was going east on the 40 and I got off at the Ste-Marie exit(where the Coliseum is). This pothole is right at the beginning of the exit so you have very little chance to slow down, I was probably doing 90 by the time I arrived at the hole.
I applied the brakes right before it, hit the pothole and it threw my car into the cement divider on the left, spun the car 180 degrees(I was facing the highway again), at this point I had downshifted to 3rd gear and was trying to recover from the slide, but kept sliding sideways into the snow/ice that borders the off ramp.
The back end went up in the air, rolled over on its nose and landed upside down. (This was according to a witness, it's hard to describe what the car looked like since I was inside. As for the part about being nose down at some point, thats what the guy said and it seems like it based on the huge imprint in the snow in front of the car)
Once the car stopped moving, I was hanging upside down by my seatbelt. I assessed myself for injuries before propping myself against the roof before taking off my seatbelt, I gathered my cellphone, school bag and sunglasses(it was sunny out I figured I'd need them). I was able to push my door open and climb out.
I took these pictures immediately after it happened, as you can see none of the emergency response teams had arrived yet.
Ambulance cleared me yesterday, but recommended I go to the hospital anyway. I refused, but then I ended up going today anyway, and I'm perfectly fine(they even checked for internal bleeding)
So my advice to everyone, wear your seatbelt! Because I never would have expected such a thing to happen on such a simple manoeuvre as exiting from the highway.
The condition of our roads in this province is sickening, and it had not occurred to me until today that I could have died.
I have yet to contact the city of Kirkland, but this kind of negligence on their part should not go unpunished.
TL;DR My car got fucked by a pothole the size of a small pond.
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