Memories of past car crashes

A blood splattered windscreen

A bleeding forehead

A racing heart

Panic

My insides jerking around inside my body

Loud voices

Anger

I reminded my kids to put their seat belts on as we got in the car and my thirteen year old son remarked that he had never been in a car accident all his life.

You’re lucky I said

I grew up in a crowded city in the third world

I haven’t just been in accidents, I was in a high speed car chase too

The guy my parents had hired to drive us to school hit a cyclist and then then he took off to avoid the police

My brother and sister and I were standing up inside the car as he drove down narrow streets at an out of control pace. We were yelling at him to stop

Out of control and crazy

Panic, fear and terror

You don’t ever forget emotions like these

I hope my kids never have to be in a car crash

I really hope not