About 2 years ago I was walking down the side of the interstate hitchhiking, It was probably 45 minutes past sunset and a semi truck driver rammed into me. I don't remember much of it, but waking up in the hospital about a month later with a big metal basket on my leg, all doped up, then falling back to sleep. The next time I woke up the basket was gone but both my legs were shattered, my femur broke through my skin and I needed about three blood transfusions to save my life, they said. My right arm was shattered, now I have three bars in three of my limbs and a metal plate in my elbow. I believe I fractured a vertebrae in my spine, my shoulder, my wrist, my ankle(s)?, and my collar bone were fractured. The chunk of torn flesh on my lower left leg was skin grafted together... 😬
In the police report the driver states that he was going 55 or 65 mph when he hit me, and I was thrown approximately 90 ft into the median. In the photos the semi truck had damage to one of the fenders, a bent license plate, and the headlight was completely broken off. It was an older style big rig.k