Sunday, June 13, 2010

Unexpected Accident

Would you believe anyone that told you a security guard at the airport came down on the escalator with their bike and fell on top of you? Well, it happened to me last year. I was 5 months pregnant in March of last year and I was going to the airport to pick up my daughter and my husband that was flying in from Pennsylvania. I had to park on the upper level at Hartsfield and take the escalator down to the main level of the airport. The lady security guard which was probably in her 20's was nice and left me go in front of her but in reality she wasn't being nice. I got on the escalator and then she got on behind me but she decided to come down the escalator on her bike, well you know what happened next, she lost her balance and she fell to the bottom. I was half way down when I heard her scream and I expected the worse so I grabbed ahold of the sides of the escalator as tight as possible and her bike wheel landed on my lower part of my back but she missed me because I got off just in time before she landed at the bottom. Of course she hurt her leg so her supervisor was concerned about her but I mentioned that I was pregnant, she got a concerned look on her face because the supervisor knew that it was the security guards fault. They called the paramedics and the checked me out and took me to the hospital to make sure the baby was ok. After half of the night in the hospital, thinkfully everything was ok. When all this was over, the only thing that I cared about getting from the security company was for them to pay for my hospital bills since it was her faulty. Well, when I contacted them, they gave me such an attitude like if I was at fault and would not give me any information regarding their insurance or the accident unless I proved to them that I was who I said I was which meant that they wanted me to write up a letter and fax it to them which that really would not prove anything. I did not like how that reacted and answered to me so I ended up having an attorney take care of this situation and after 7 months, I finally got the money from their insurance company to pay for my medical bills.

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