The accident

Yesterday afternoon, I was involved in a car accident. I was driving home from Lake Hopatcong (totally out of my way, but once in a while I take care of my ex-neighbor's dogs because she and they are so nice and I don't mind going out of my way for them) at around 4:30. It is a 2 lane road on both sides. I was in the left lane, going about 35 mph. I had actually just checked the speed limit and my speed, plus there was someone riding my tail who passed me, so I definitely wasn't going too fast. As I was driving along, minding my own business, I saw out of the corner of my right eye, a blue car gunning it out of a parking lot of a restaurant. I could see the car heading straight into my passenger side. Without any time to react, I tried to turn my wheel to avoid him without swinging my car into the oncoming traffic. He didn't even brake and at full acceleration hit the back side of my car. My car proceeded to spin out of control, through the two lanes of oncoming traffic (which had cleared at precisely the right time) and continued to spin into the exit driveway of a Dunkin Donuts. I was trying to turn the car out of the spin and brake and the car finally stopped a few inches short of a metal gate separating the DD from another parking lot. I remember putting the car in park and then looking out onto the road to see where the other car was through my rearview mirror. There was all this debris in the road and I thought for sure the entire side of my car must have fallen off. Usually after an accident I will grab my phone, or jump out of the car to assess the damage. This time, I just sat there in shock holding my belly. There were people gathering all over both sides of the street, like onlookers of a parade. A woman and a man ran over to my car and told me not to move until the paramedics came...which made me cry, because why would they tell me that unless it was really bad. The woman happened to be an off-duty nurse and she stayed there with me and did wonders calming me down until the ambulance got there. I was really lightheaded and shaken up but other than that I felt okay. First time ever in an ambulance! They checked me out on the scene and I turned down their offer to take me to the hospital (there were visions of medical bills dancing in my head). The police were nice enough to put my donut wheel on my car and when I was clear-headed enough to look at the damage I couldn't believe it wasn't worse. The other car needed to be towed and all the street debris was from his car, not mine.
My car needs to get fixed (hopefully it is not totaled). I don't even care about any of that. I am unscathed, the baby is fine and I was able to go home and sleep in my own bed. I have been effected by how lucky I really was. There were no cars in that other lane, there were no cars exiting the Dunkin Donuts, there were no pedestrians walking on the street or in the parking lot. There was no telephone pole in my way...there was a clearing that let my car spin and stop without hitting a thing.
Last night when I tried to sleep it was hard to get the vision out of my head. My mind blocked out a good part of what it had really felt like but when I closed my eyes last night I kept reliving it over and over.
I'm glad I have some guardian angels looking out for me.