09-07-2014, 08:12 AM
I worked a car crash where a family took a long ride to go pumpkin picking. Their 2 yr old girl was "fussing and crying" on the way home. The mother took the child out of the seat and held her on her lap in the backseat and was feeding her a snack. A very drunk driver came into their lane and hit them head-on. The car was a small Toyota Corolla. The impact sent the mother and child forward with such force that the mother's body pushed the child's body under the front seat. You all know how little room there is under a compact car's seat, right? The mother had a compound fracture of the ankle. The little girl's cervical spine was severed. She actually survived due to the police officers being so thoroughly trained with regard to injury management. She is confined to living on a respirator, flat on her back, completely paralyzed, but she can talk. Her lifetime medical care cost is estimated at at least $25 Million. Several people around her have remarked she would be better off dead, she has no life, and seeing her like that absolutely kills you.