Oh you people are not scaring me....I'm from NY, try driving in Manhattan during rush hour...(Or at 2am) LOL
We've already driven all the way from NC to NY making perfect timing only to get stuck on the Southern State Parkway (on Long Island) for 2 hours.
To be honest though, in all the trips we made back and forth, before and during the move here, the place we hit the most delays and traffic jams was Virginia, near the Richmond area.

I'll count my blessings that we live here now that my son is learning to drive.
(it is still nerve wracking though!)

OH NO!
the previous post was in response to the other page, I didn't read all the way through, (thought I did)
I'm so sorry to hear about the accident. It is so frightening. My older son had a terrible one not long ago.
I am a firm beleiver in not talking on the cell when you are driving. It is the law in NY but not in NC. I told my family that we will continue to follow the NY law on this one!

Thanks ladies. I just returned from a couple day trip to the beach with my daughter, her beau, and his mom. Lots of fun. Anyway, I'm happy to announce the driving was a breeze. I didn't have any fears after witnessing the accident.

Smile, if I were a doctor, I'd prescribe exercise to all my patients.

Dots, I'm so glad you are not going back to the ptsd. I prayed for you and I'm sure others did as well. Maybe this is a sign you are truly and forever cured.
If I were a doctor I would prescribe exercise too. I think health insurance should cover it. Of course the biggest expens would be the policemen with the big guns to drag us all out every day to do it.
smile

smile, as always, thanks for the prayers.

Funny you should mention the police. I think there's one at my door right now. If not, there should be. I haven't been to Curves inover a week. For some reason I want to quit. Not good!

Knock, knock (no police,just me) Dotsie, why don't you just ease off for a few months and replace Curves with Tennis, walking, etc,

Nothing worse than going somewhere where you don't want to be right now.

In the fall, Curves will be calling you back. September sounds good.

Take a two month Hiatus(sp?)

chick (who needs to practice what she preaches)

Reading this thread, dredged up the horror I lived through in 1998 when my daughter did not return home from work.

I knew something was wrong. I could not fall asleep. She should have been home around 11:30 p.m. At 1:30 a.m her boyfriend showed up and told me she was in the hospital, she had an accident, I asked where and he told me what exit.

I expected her to be in a hospital near the accident, but she had been brought to a hospital two counties over which I knew was a trauma hospital.

My husband and I arrived and she was in and out of consiousness. She was very lucky. She was badly bruised but no internal injuries or broken bones, or life threatening injuries. She didn't know what happened and did not know where she was for the next three days.

This is how the accident happened. There was late night construction on the Garden State Parkway, which is a main highway, 3 of 5 lanes had been shut down into 2 (including the acceleration lane)
this caused the on ramp traffic to immediately move into the traffic flow, however the traffic was at a dead standstill due to the workers and the merge.

My daughter pulled onto the Parkway and sat in the traffic. Her boyfriend was in his car (he was actually driving my daughter's car because she was driving his - they felt his car was safer and he never liked her driving home by herself late at night)two cars behind her. All of a sudden he watched a Chevy Tahoe, traveling at a high speed, crash into his Geo Tracker (with my daughter in it) and caused it to flip over twice, hit two cars (one with each roll), and roll off the Parkway.

The man who hit her never applied the brakes and my daughter just happened to be sitting towards the end of the traffic. It appeared that by the time he realized the traffic was stopped, he swerved to avoid hitting the traffic in the lane he was traveling in and ran into my daughter's car, hitting her at such an angle to propel her car into the air.

Fortunately she had her seatbelt on and the rollbar held. The car had a cloth roof. I saw the car the next day and could not imagine how she had survived the crash.

I went past the accident site the next night at the same time and could not understand how the man did not know traffic was stopped. The floodlights alone from the work crew were enough warning.

What really angered me is the police never gave the driver an alcohol test. The driver and his friends were on their way back from Atlantic City.

This happened in the first month of my daughter's first year of college, so it had set her back a year. It took two years before she regained the full use of her left arm.

I'm sorry to unload this here but I felt it was a safe place to do so.

As parents we focus so much time and worry on OUR child's ability to drive well and obey traffic laws. What happened to my daughter is proof that a driver needs to be just as aware of the drivers around them.

I can't even count how many near accidents I have been in and avoided because I keep an eye out BECAUSE of people on cell phones. It really annoys me when I blow my horn and I get a look as if I broke the offending driver's concentration.

***Note - my friend's father is an attorney and he said that in the past most car accidents were caused by people changing radio stations or smoking. That statistic has been replaced by cell phone use and the numbers are even higher than in the past.

Jersey girl, how horrible for family. Coming from someone who was hit in '04 by a woman speeding OFF of a ramp and T-boned ME, I can relate to the cell phone thing. I saw her coming at me but could do nothing. Your daughter is very fortunate and I'm so happy to hear she is okay. Bless her heart.

Cell phone make you stupid. JJ

What a scary thing for all of you. I worry about my kids when they're on the road and they are well into their adult years. I'm so glad she's okay.

Jersey girl,
I'm so glad that your daughter is doing good but saddened that she had to endure such a horrible thing and at auch a young age.