Hold Your Breath

Author:
Rachael Herrscher
Updated:
Dec 18, 2018
Original:
Mar 28, 2011

I stopped breathing for a minute when I saw these. I just got these pictures from my husbands car accident last August and I seriously don't know how all 3 of them came out alive.

This is the backseat where my husand was sitting. — This is the backseat where my husband was sitting. Notice how even the back of the truck is smashed into the backseat.

Yet somehow the irony of that little smiley face light cover makes me laugh!

Paramedics at the scene

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The creepiest thing about this picture is that my husband is in the back seat of the truck and the paramedic is stabilizing his neck.

The good news is that they all came out alive! He's still recovering 7 months later but these pictures remind me of how much worse it could have been!

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