I Almost Sealed The Deal

So last night was the worst experience in my life this far. I was driving home from school. I turned off 1900 W onto Riverdale Road. It was really dark and there weren't many cars out. There were 2 construction trucks on the side of the rode with their hazard lights on but I didn't see any people around. ALL OF THE SUDDEN there was a guy lying in the middle of the road, in the fetal position on his side. I swerved to miss him but I wasn't sure if I did it in time. Then I heard and felt something scraping under my car so I pulled over. By now I was freaking out, thinking that I had just killed this guy that was in the road. I looked under my car and there was a road cone stuck under it. I looked back at the body in the road and just started sobbing. I wasn't sure if I hit him and the cone, or just the cone, or what. I didn't know if that guy was dead or what was happening. I started to hyperventalate. I called my sister in law because I didn't know what to do. Honestly, I can't remember what she told me to do because I was freaking out too much. After I got off the phone, I walked over to the scene and by then an ambulence and a million cop cars were there. Another lady who had stopped saw me and tried to calm me down. She brought me to an officer and he had me sit in his car while I tried to stop crying. I told him what happened and that I didn't know if I hit him and that I just needed to know if he was dead or if he was okay. I finally stopped crying and I walked over to the scene. The guy was on his back. I could see that he was breathing but he was not conscious. His clothes had been cut off and he had a broken leg. They were just moving him onto the stretcher. 40 minutes had gone by, by now and I was freezing from being outside. I just wanted to go home. I asked a few times if I could go and they just kept telling me to stay for a little longer. Finally, they let me leave. I went to my car and just started crying again. I was so scared to start driving again so I just sat there for a while. Finally I turned my hazards off and pulled away. I was so disoriented and I couldn't even remember how to drive properly. I finally made it to Dan's house because it was closer to where I was than my own house. He helped to calm me down alot. When it came time for me to go home though, I got scared again. While driving, I kept seeing things jumping out from the side of the road. The whole night made me really put things into a new perspective. If I had been distracted at all, or going too fast, that guy would probably be dead. I would have run over him full on, his head under my left tire and his body under my right tire. I swerved just in time, but still was probably only 5 inches away from hitting him. If I hadn't been there, who knows if the person behind me would have seen him in time. Last night, I saw the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.

What actually happened was there was a construction worker pulled over to the side of the road with his hazard lights on (one of the truck I saw). He had gotten out of his truck to lay road cones down (the road cone I hit). While he was laying out the cone, a guy drove up the street in his truck. He didn't see the construction worker and accidentally hit him (that's why there was a guy in the road). The kid who hit him had pulled over to the side of the road (the other truck I saw) and was probably calling 911. That's about the time when I came into the picture. I was the first person to drive past after the accident. I hope the guy is okay.