CDA
May 17, 2023
The large number of traffic accidents that a Northern Ireland driver has suffered has caused her to give up driving.
A traffic accident can be an event that causes trauma to drivers and occupants, even Coming to produce apprehension when it comes to getting back behind the wheel. It is true that, to fight against this, the human being has the ability to show resistance in the face of adversity. But with limits.
This is the case of a woman who had 13 car accidents before the age of 30. And after the thirteenth, he decided to stop driving forever.
Jennifer Cairns is a 50-year-old woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and his life has been marked by traffic accidents. The first of them suffered when he was seven years old and his mother was driving the vehicle.
He suffered his first traffic accident at the age of 7.
The next one took place when Cairns I was 17 years old and, in his own words, it was the worst of allsince it happened shortly after learning that her best friend had died in another accident with a semi-truck.
“About two hours after her accident, my car was totaled less than a mile from where we lived. I think I found out he was in the hospital so he shouldn’t have been driving,” she explained. this accident required three surgeries to treat a fracture in the orbital orbit from hitting the head.
Despite the severity of the accident, Cairns continued to drive, although accidents kept happeningeither with her as a driver or as a passenger until a total of 13 accidents before turning 30 years old.
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Now, the health problems he suffers as a result of all these traffic accidents have turned out to be too much. In addition to physical complications, he suffers from mental disorders. Among them, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Since 2001, when he was in his 20s, he has not driven a car.. However, despite her difficulties, Cairns has a positive attitude: “A lot of people would say, what a bad luck you have, but I have a lot of gratitude and I think I am very lucky.” She continues: “The accidents caused me physical pain and affected my mental health, but many of them could have been much worse.”
