I had recently graduated from college and working with an advance team with a rock and roll promoter, I left a meeting that stayed late at a restaurant, while walking to my car across a parking lot some drunken jackass driving at a high rate of speed lost control of his car, jumped out of the road and slammed into me.
My left leg was broken in several places and the muscles in my hip and knee torn and skull fracture, i was in a come for four days. A local cop was writing reports in the parking lot, witnessed the accident and gave chase when the driver failed to pull over. The driver had 3X the allowable alcohol in his system and was arrested, in addition to drunk driving he was charged with driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance.
I was fortunate that my parents had a bed in the basement that I could live in for a year following numerous surgeries and rehab.
The drunk never paid me a dime and I was fortunate after a long battle with my company's workmen's comp carrier to receive a check two years after the accident for lost wages.
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