holy shit.
I can't believe I'm still alive with no broken bones after what happened this morning. We were on our way to Canmore this morning and the roads were kinda shitty. The fact I was up till 2 am this morning zonked me out just after I got into the van (it was an aerostar van) and the way I was sitting on the seat behind the front passenger seat, I was kinda rolled up in a ball with my back facing the door on the right. I was wearing my seatbelt and it was resting on my neck while I was taking a snooze.
There was a shit load of stuff like paint cans and air compressor beside me and in the back too. My foreman Scott were driving the van (I've never liked the way he drives) with my coworker in front of me. I was rudely awakened by a HUGE bump and the next thing I saw was the paint cans falling on me while I'm being pressed against the door. It happened so fast, I saw snow on the window, it was as if it looked like we hit a huge pile of snow. But then I looked out to the front, the van were sliding on its side (my side!) and my seat belt locked up so fast, I ended up being pinned to the seat then got thrown against the door while the paint cans started falling on me. We finally stopped and I felt some pain in my jaw, I immediately checked to see if there was any blood or whatever. I realized that I was okay, I was quite shaken up at this point, it was so weird seeing everything kinda all upside down outside.
We climbed out of the van after we managed to get the cans off me. It turns out Scott were trying to merge onto the high way when he lost control of the van, the tires just locked up on him and we started sliding sideways on the highway doing 100. We started going into the ditch and this is when I assume I woke up only to see us roll over when we reached the bottom of the ditch. Everyone is okay except for myself, I got knocked in the head pretty bad with the cans and my jaw got socked so there's a huge bruise on my jaw and a few chipped teeth too.
Things should have gone a lot worse than this but... holy shit, I will never forget what happened. I will never forget seeing the paint cans fly towards me (they were full too) and seeing us roll over on the side doing at least 80.
I know it's been nice outside and all that, but the weather has gone to shit again, so please be careful. Don't let this happen to you!