::SCREAMS::

[trinityvixen]

Holy Jesus, this is not okay.

Being trapped in a car that's gone off a bridge (or, in this case, had the bridge collapse out from under it) is my not-so-secret terror, one of the few I have about driving. Because to be trapped in my car such that I drown to death is more terrifying than falling to my death, which is otherwise the thing I fear the most (at least with falling, you get to see stuff and the end is quick).

feiran mentioned this last night, but I had no idea it was such a major collapse. My God, I'm going to be a wreck driving over bridges for forever. And, as people who saw me do it last weekend can attest, I wasn't that good about driving on the Tappan Zee to begin with.

::clutches at chest:: Oh GodOhGodOhGod

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think I mostly have the freak out under control, thanks. It's stupid, but this is like a mortal phobia. And I'll be fine until I have to go over a bridge and I'll probably scream myself hoarse if I even feel a breeze from another car. Time to figure out ways around, not over, rivers...

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Getting around the Hudson: not that easy to do.

By the way, I saw a special on the Discovery Channel or something about how to react if you are in a car that goes overboard into water. It's actually very survivable; the most important thing is to roll down (or, if necessary, break out) a window so that you have a release for the water pressure and can still open the door. Then you'll be able to swim to the surface.

BTW, remember the beginning of Beetlejuice? The couple should totally not have died from that. Their car didn't even SINK. WTF?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Maybe they hit their heads? Broke their necks? The fact that they were completely unharmed makes it hard to tell what happened. But if internal organs were sheared, well, internally, they might not have shown it.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

They sell these awesome little tools that you keep in your car that have a steel mallet point for busting out windows and a razor blade for cutting seat belts for just that kind of incident. :p