I also was in a bad accident before I was diagnosed with fibro, I was traveling down a 2 lane highway just as it turned dark and I had a gooseneck trailer with a tractor and a car engine on it. I had just turned and I was in the process of shifting gears and accelerating (probably 30 mph) when out of no-where i saw a flash of headlights come flying up behind me and before i knew it i was violently hit from the rear, I was hit so hard it broke the trailer off of my truck and smashed it into the bed, the bed hit the cab and forced the cooling fan into the radiator and it broke my steering shaft pushing me into oncoming traffic. I had 2 passengers with me and i yelled at them to get OUT of the truck NOW! I was worried about how dark it was getting and there were no lights on this road. I was approached by the kid who hit me and he was already on the phone, I called 911 and reported the accident. The kid handed me the phone it was clear that he was in shock( i had been a volunteer fire fighter and first responder for several years) a man answered and said "what happened?!?" I said "this kid slammed into the back of my trailer! but he seems alright" He said" wait a minute! he hit you?" I said "yes!" he said "give the phone back to my son!" I handed the phone back to him. The ambulance and fire dept showed up and sheriffs dept. I was in the ambulance and the first thing one of the EMT's said to me was" I will be happy to testify for you in court because this isn't normal" I said "what do you mean?!?" she said " the kid who hit you is the a sheriffs son and they aren't following protocol." almost immediately after a sheriffs deputy started drilling me with rude insinuations and questions. He kept saying I didn't have any tail lights on my trailer which wasn't true. He said they could tell from the wreckage if they were lit or not. I told him they were and they could look all they wanted. After a long time of getting bashed by questions I finally said call the guy who loaded the tractor not 20 minutes before the wreck he will tell you the lights were on. They called him and he confirmed the lights were on, around this time after the sheriffs dept has already took a statement from me and tampered with my trailer light connector they decided to call in the state police because a conflict of interest. A while later a state trooper shows up and first thing he does is hug a couple guys from the sheriffs dept and they talk like best friends. by this time Ive been standing at the wreck and I noticed my passengers were gone and I was alone. I asked where are my passengers they said we took them to a town 30-45 min away and dropped them at a hotel. I said they have no money how are they going to get a hotel? they said it was none of their concern. They continued to drill me with questions until well after midnight and then they put me in the back of the police car and drove me almost an hour in the opposite direction and forced me to take a blood test. After the blood test they took me into a room at the hospital and proceeded to question me harshly while recording the conversation. after that(after 3am) they took me out to the parking lot and the state trooper said" Ill call you tomorrow and let you know how many tickets you are getting" and I said" how many tickets I'm getting?!?!?!, I was rear ended!" He got into his car and left. My truck, trailer and tractor had all been impounded with all my clothes and belongings included. The sheriffs deputy proceeded to get into his car and I said" are you just going to leave me here? I don't even know where I am!" He said "I've got stuff to do, there might be one more officer in there that might take you somewhere." Then he left, I went in and found the last officer he was a younger guy and he was pretty nice, he drove me almost 2 hours back to the town my passengers were in, luckily the hotel was nice enough to let them stay inside until i got there to pay. It took until 6pm the next night to get a rental car to get home. And 5-6 years later I'm still trying to get some reimbursement for the wreck, it took over a year for me to find out the kids name and the insurance he had then another year to get a police report. I never heard from that state cop ever again, his insurance company never came and looked at my truck, I got 3 tickets and had to pay almost 2 grand to get my stuff back missed countless days of work and lost a vehicle and trailer, and after that is when I started having pain and fatigue, etc.
