I can't drive past 10pm in the state of Wisconsin (where i live) due to a restricted driving lisence (too many tickets), so I asked a neighbor to take me to the gas station to get cigaretts and some junk food. She couldn't take me, but this other girl at her house said she would. She grabbed my friend's keys, and said let's go. I said ok and thought nothing of it.

Little did I know, she'd been using cocaine and had smoked pot ealier, as well as had a few shots of jaegermeister beforehand. I didn't know this girl, and I didn't know she'd done that. I have better common sense than that to get in a car with a wasted driver. We went to a gas station outside of town, and I told the girl I thought her driving was too fast for the conditions, I'd rather risk driving past the 10pm curfew I had than let her continue. She got mad at me and told me to get in the car or she was gonna leave so I got in, I wasn't gonna walk 7 miles home in the snow. She was all over the road and I told her to slow down, and last thing I remember was looking at the speedometer as she reached for her ringing cell phone and we were going 70mph. it was 10:45 when I looked at the clock, when I opened my eyes it was 11:02pm and people were yelling at us to see if we were ok. I don't remember much, but I remember bleeing and intense pain.

We flipped 2 1/2 times and landed on the drivers side of the explorer. I broke the windshield with my head (and I had a seatbelt on), my ribs were shattered and my pelvis cracked as well as my skull....My sneakers were blown off my feet and my purse was 31 feet from the car in the snow. no one died, but my injuries were the worst.

The EMT's and police told my husband had I not had my belt on, I'd be "bagged and tagged" as they put it. I don't remember a lot of things now, sometimes I forget my phone number or what I was doing,I can't really take care of my 3 year old without help or how to do something thanks to this.

The girl driving, as it turned out was 16, with no license, had a .11 BAC and was impaired by drugs, yet she got a ticket for driving without a lisence, and assault with a motor vehicle. I am fighting in court to make her lose her license until she is 21 ( a security lean, it's called here in Wisconsin). It's been a terrible battle. I can't sleep, I still hear the accident in my head when I close my eyes, I feel the car rolling when I lie in bed, yet I was spared. I am so lucky to be alive. I only wish most of the people I've read about on your site were as lucky as me. Sorry this is so long, I can't really make things short from my head to the email. I am impaired like that I think