I crashed my car

[The Former DMiller]

I'll one-up you both. Last summer I was working at a summer camp in Philadelphia, and I was on my way back to Illinois. Well, about 8 hours into the drive somewhere around 2 in the am I started getting really tired. Caffeine really doesn't have an effect on me so the Mountain Dew wasn't helping much. I passed a rest stop and told myself I would stop at the next one I saw, but I never made it. About three miles from the next rest stop I fell asleep at the wheel. Instead of hitting a barrier which would have resulted in a much smaller problem, I drifted onto an off-ramp. I woke up as I was hitting a sign and I began to go down a hill. Now I probably would have been fine if I just let the car's momentum take me down the hill, but I had just woken up and my instincts had me try to steer back onto the road. Well, since my momentum was going down the hill you can imagine what happened next. The car began to flip over, and the last thing I remember was being upside down in my car. The car somehow ended up on it's wheels, but when I saw it the next morning the entire driver's side was almost crushed. I don't know how I got out of the car, but I do remember calling my sister after I was already outside. Luckily, I only suffered a concussion and some cuts on my hand, because a number of variables could have made things a lot worse. I had to stay in the hospital overnight, and because my insurance from school lapsed during the summer I had a few thousand to pay off, which I just finished paying a few months ago.

On the positive side...I needed a new car anyway.