I hope he is okay

So I got in a car accident today.   I have never owned a brand new car until this year.  We have been true savers in buying almost new cars with just a few thousand miles on them for 20 years.  Until this year, we splurged and bought new.  I should have known it would happen.  Murphy's law.

So while it was a huge bummer that the Armada got crunched, it was the least important thing at that moment.  The crash was due to another driver running a stop sign.  I saw him last second and hit the breaks and swerved to the right so that our front corners hit instead of me T-boning his car.  That would have been really bad. 

As soon as we hit and stopped, I checked the kids, they were all okay.  I looked over and saw the other driver, he appeared to be okay.  Called 911 and got out to check on him.  You see, he was an elderly man with an oxygen tank sitting next to him.  As I walked around to his door, I saw his hat.  It was a well worn WW II Veterans hat.  I thought to myself that he HAD to be okay.  I could not stand the thought that I could have killed this great man.  There are so few left and I could have really hurt him.  His head was down.  I asked if he was okay.  He responded yes, but was quite dazed.  I told him I needed to call someone from his family to come and help him.  He pulled out his wallet and started to pull out each little paper with hand written notes on them.  He was shaking.  I gently asked him questioned as I assessed his condition.  Does your chest hurt?  Did you hit the steering wheel?  Are your legs okay?  He responded to each question with  quiet one word responses.  He found a paper with phone numbers, I tried the first two with no response.  The third was faded and I dialed several wrong numbers.  At that point the sheriff arrived and took over.  I didn't get to talk to him again after that.  I expressed my concern about him to the sheriff and he assured me that he would make sure he was alright.

For much of the day, I spoke to insurance people, auto body people, medical claims people, rental car people, lots of people.  Its almost bed time and my mind goes back to him.  I hope he is okay.