Totaled the Silvia....

[elevator]

Spent several days in Japanese hospital. The most depressing miserable Christmas of my life. (actually it did improve...we went to Fukuoka for a few days)

All my kids were here for the holidays. We had planned a great trip to Tokyo for the week after Christmas through New Years. Chrismas eve a Black Cat delivery truck does a U-turn in front of me and turns the S13 into scrap.

Japanese hospitals have good Drs. and nurses, but the facilities and the way they do things just aint fun at all.

Crushed sternum/ribs, collapsed lung, internal bleeding, smashed face...

Mending now...still real sore. I'll post pics later.

[nrg]

glad your alive..

[evilimport]

Damn, that sucks Glad.... How does car insurance handle things like that in Japan? Whats going to happen to the delivery truck company? Take it easy and get well soon.

[brianglawson]

wow man... sucks to be you right now..... my firend just b/f wrecked her car flipping i wrecked my dads v-dub not to long ago rolling down the interstate into a tractor trailer..... luck is with us all .... i wonder why

[sykikchimp]

Wow.. that's sucks man. At least your fam was around to support you in your time of need.

[cali240sxdrifter]

damn man, am glad your still here and with your family. Good luck with recovery

[Ghettokracker71]

Sorry to hear that man....hope ya get better soon

[Sil Beer S13]

Wow man that really sucks.

[s14slide]

man that sux, happy to see you still in one bag of skin. I'm getting tired of everyone saying these japanese truck drivers never wreck. I think I've seen more trucks in accidents over here than anything else. Just to give you guys an idea of what these drivers are like, I once followed a truck (dump truck) all the way to a touge spot through a bunch of touge doing mostly 80kmh. 80 to 90 clicks is on the very top end of comfortable cruising for me going to touge. Hawlin bawls, cutting close and howlin tires. These guys will blow through red lights at night w/out thinkin twice. Happened right in front of me last night as a matter of fact.

[mrmephistopheles]

Holy shit. I'm glad to hear you're all in one piece, Jeff.
I hope you get better soon. At the very least you had your whole family to take care of you. Were you alone when the collision occurred?
I know it's probably the least of your concerns, but if nothing else, you will be able to get a respectable settlement from their insurance, and should have plenty of funds to buy and build another Silvia.
Do you have our phone numbers? I can't find yours.
Could you send me a PM with yours?

-Kevin

[blu808]

Hope you recover quickly. Sorry to hear about your accident.

[2pac owns a 240w/sr20det]

*SMOKEY VOICE*
YOU GOT kNOCK THE FUC* OUT :P

get well soon

[AlligatorBling]

your still here, you have more to do in life obviously ... if you believe in fate that is, fates a mysterious thing... im glad your ok. relax and deal with the pain (mental as well as physical) the best you can, and remember.... tomorrow you will wake up to a new day.

[nismo2491]

good to see you're ok!
KEvin

[97DubTruck]

What is the military going to do for you? Give you a long while off? Come back to the states? Good luck man.

[mrmephistopheles]

He's not in the military, he's a school administrator. I'm sure he'll be given sufficient time off to heal.

[evilimport]

Well, judging from the pic you posted Glad, you've looked worse....

just playin' Glad... :D

[Fastback180]

Stay stong and best wishes to you bro...Kepp your head and and get well!

[97DubTruck]

He's not in the military, he's a school administrator. I'm sure he'll be given sufficient time off to heal.

Oh wow I just assumed he was stationed there. That really sucks. I hope everything gets sorted out quickly for you.

[KoukiMonster]

were you wearing your seatbelt or did your face pretty much take the damage from the lack of air bag.

[AlligatorBling]

keep up updated on your recovery... your looking pretty rough right now... but you could look rougher
http://www.bumfights.com/pics/38.jpg

[evilimport]

^^ Hahahaha :rofl: :rofl:

[elevator]

Always kicking a man when he's down!!
were you wearing your seatbelt or did your face pretty much take the damage from the lack of air bag.
Even with the seatbelt the steering wheel can do a lot of damage when it is moved toward you by about 8 inches. It was turned inside out against my chest and face.
Oh wow I just assumed he was stationed there. That really sucks. I hope everything gets sorted out quickly for you.
I am stationed here....I am a DOD civilian though.

Thanks for the kind words guys. I AM mending. No permanent scars...just permanent ugly. The facial bruising and cuts healed really fast. The chest has been slow. You never know how much you use the muscles in your chest until you wreck your rib cage. Getting out of bed in the morning has been a nightmare. For the first week I had my wife bring my meds (hydrocodone rocks) and a half hour later I would try to get up. And even then I needed help.

Shopping for something new to drive....S15 sounds nice to me.

[Fastback180]

Japanese good
Tricare bad

[aznpoopy]

wow, that is terrible man. sounds like it was a nasty accident! steering wheel 8 inches towards and flipped? damn...

pick up that s15, take some pics and make us all jealous. get well soon!

[90RS13]

Sorry about the wreck, GladHatter

Japanese good

What's wrong with Tri-Care? They've been nothing but good to me, especially (sp :loco: ) when my wife's car fell on my head. Well, the German doctor sucked, but Tri-Care was good with everything. Had over a month of convelescent leave too. :wiggle:

[elevator]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/gladhatter/CIMG0005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/gladhatter/CIMG0009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/gladhatter/CIMG0010.jpg

Can you tell what it is?

[kingsol]

wow... i couldn't tell what it was at first, hope you get better soon

[mrmephistopheles]

holy shit.. Your car got :Owned: brother.

[nismo2491]

damn man, was anybody with you when it happened, definitely looks like passenger side took brunt of damage, probably good for your sake.
KEvin

[S14DB]

Holly Chit. Look at the steering wheel. Looks like they had to rip the door open.

[elevator]

Holly Chit. Look at the steering wheel. Looks like they had to rip the door open.
Took them 45 minutes to get me out of it. Jaws of life own.