Rear ended by a bus?

OK, my car was totalled.  But I wasn't.

And while I wasn't driving a Hummer, I was behind the wheel of one of the sturdier cars on the road. 

What I learned could be helpful to you should you be stopped at a red light behind several other cars.  Nowhere to run nowhere to hide.

Check your rear view mirror when stopped in traffic.  I did.  And noticed a Sam Trans bus barreling along El Camino at over 40 mph with no intention of stopping. Was this a flashback to that B-rated movie?

Depress your brakes.  This is what I instinctively did.  I've since been told this saved all of us from far more serious injury. 

So, although my car was accordioned by the multi-vehicle collision, all of us walked away with relatively minor injuries. Thank God no one was in the bus, other than a very distracted/hungry driver looking for lunch.  It was not one of his better days.  And definitely not one of mine.

Oh, the next day?  I felt like I'd been hit by a Mack Truck. 

Luckily I knew Nick Athens, chiropractor to the 49'ers and numerous Bay Area sports figures/athletes.  Thanks to Nick and Lucy Hessel/see website, the resulting pain from the accident was corrected in an amazingly short period of time. 

Stash this info in the back of your brain/hopefully you never need to access it.