How are you today, ga? It must have been an awful shock.
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...horrendous car crash near my house. I heard the most awful bang followed by a continuous car horn. I ran outside to see two cars completely smashed in a head on collision. Passersby were on phones, obviously calling the emergency services, so I ran further down the road and began to direct traffic away from the scene. Fifteen minutes later a policewoman arrived to tell me I was doing a brilliant job and asked me to continue until reinforcements could get there. She (kindly 
) gave me a blue 'POLICE' sign to put in the middle of the road behind me and left me to it (for a further fifty minutes).....a few minutes later a distraught woman came rushing up to me crying, 'Where is my son....where is my son?' Horrible moment - the crash was just out of sight behind me. She was the mother of one of the drivers and was followed a short time later by a lad of about eighteen who ran sobbing up the road and into her arms. Now I've come indoors - the fire service are cutting one of the cars apart to get someone out.......I'm sitting here shaking. Poor family. 
Just read this. You were amazing GA 
hope you are feeling better this morning GA and that there is good news from the hospital.
Just read this post GA well done. You are indeed well named 
hope you're feeling better today.
I hope a refreshing sleep will settle you, ga. You did a fine job
Thanks for your lovely understanding comments my friends.
I think I'm in quite an emotionally fragile state at the moment (the brother in law saga continues) and that's why it affected me so badly. And of course Kitty is right, I did put myself in the place of the mother; my own sons are similar ages to hers. No further news about the casualties yet, but in a small town like this news gets around quite quickly so I'm sure I'll hear something soon. This town is usually a haven of peace and one of the safest places in the country to live, but just a week ago a holidaymaker was killed here by a local man in tragic circumstances. The community is still reeling from that. Anyway, I'm off to my bed soon and hoping that the week ahead will improve.
Well done ga
GA, you were so resourceful and it's sure to have taken a lot out of you. The police must have been very grateful to you. I hope there's good news about the young man who had to be cut out. 
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Sit down and have a with a splah in it GA. you sound as though you did a great job. Afterwards is always difficult as we put ourselves in the place of the people affected, don't we? Hope the WM comes home soon to look after you. If he doesn't please burble away to us.
You have clearly behaved with great sense and control in a crisis but it is hardly surprising that once the crisis is over, you feel shaky and probably tearful. Well done grannyactivist. I should have something stronger than tea if I were you.
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