balancing out

I gave my statement to the police yesterday. I've been able to find out a little more about what happened from the other statements given by witnesses of my accident. The road that I was crossing had three lanes heading East. Cars had stopped on the inside two lanes and the outside lane appeared to be empty. That's where I got hit by a station-wagon when a woman went straight through a red light. Apparently there were several others on the crossing with me at the time, but luckily none of them got hurt.

At this point in time, I'd rather be in my shoes than the woman who hit me. I'm still a little concerned about how my head's feeling, the swelling's gone but I don't feel quite right at this stage. Aside from that I'm relatively uninjured, and touch wood, I should be back to 100% before too long. I should be getting compensation for what happened, I'll be ringing up about that today. The woman, on the other hand, looks as though she'll be charged and she doesn't really know what my condition is. Apparently she hasn't been able to sleep and has called the police asking to see how I am. It was bad being hit by the car. It can't have been much better to run into someone, see their head smash into your windscreen, see them land in front of your car, and know that you were entirely to blame. There was also a passenger in the car, which isn't fortunate at all.

I've asked the police for the woman's phone number, and they said that they'd have to ask for her permission to give it to me. What's happened has been bad enough and there's more coming for the woman, there's no sense in letting her suffer further by thinking that she's turned me into a vegetable.