Accident update:

Thank you Silver Patriot, for posting the prayer request for me.

My daughter Mary K leaves the dealership in Highland, Indiana after buying the Honda Civic, and goes directly to our State Farm agent at 173rd and Kennedy in Hammond. She pays for the full coverage, and then heads west on 173rd to come home so she can show off her new used car to her stepdad.She wanted to surprise him, as he had no idea she finally found a replacement car for the Saturn that was wrecked on black ice a month ago. Right at the light for Purdue,which was green for her, and she had the right of way, a guy pulled right in front of her. The Honda Civic is totaled and then some. It looks like an accordian. Some parts of the dashboard came off at impact, the radio front, and a couple other things.Her car started smoking, and she couldn't open the door. A man came up to her car and got the door opened and helped my daughter out. Another man put her in his car until the cops and ambulance came. A nursing student from Purdue ran over to help my daughter, who was bleeding heavily through her nose. Several people stopped to help my daughter. People who witnessed the accident gave their account of it to the cops. The other driver was 100% at fault.The other driver did not get hurt.

Mary K was released from the hospital this evening. She has a concussion and whiplash.She couldn't hear out of her left ear initially, but now can, even though it is muted and she has ringing in that ear. Her eyes look like she was in a fight. Her nose is swollen and red, and so is some of her face. She has a cut on her nose and another one under her chin. She is banged up and bruised, but will be OK.The air bags deployed and really smacked her but good. She is tiny, only 5ft 1in and 103 pounds,a real lightweight, so the whallop from the air bags really hit her hard, but probably saved her life.The seat belt held good too.

I thank God that my daughter was not hurt worse, or even killed. Her car was so badly damaged my husband didn't even know what kind of car it was when he arrived at the accident scene.All he saw when he got there was a smashed up silver heap of a car on the back of a flatbed.

God Bless you all for the prayers !!!