This part I get and is the part no one talks about after traumatic harm is caused in these incidents.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/driver-who-killed-cyclist-on-charity-ride-to-be-sentenced-today
“Erin Townley, one of the cyclists who was hit by the Nissan and suffered serious injuries, told the court that she remembered the sound of the car’s impact, and then everything went black. When she woke up, she was holding her fractured right arm.
During her victim impact statement Wednesday, Townley said her life was “forever altered” on May 27, and that she spends her days “trying to forget” what happened. She also said that she’s been unable to bike on the road without looking over her shoulder since.”
There is no talk of long term years later effects we have for life. The fear of being on a busy street, the right engine sound triggering anxiety and fight or flight response, and other symptoms. Or the nightmare dream when we recall it in our sleep. And if we can find a way to ride sections of main road we end up riding so far right in the gravel practically in the ditch. And non one mentions the continuous fight to get medical treatments when needed. Nor the having to relive it in some form having to explain it time and again to someone in the medical system. And let us not forget the uphill fight to explain that you have mental injury. Constantly trying to figure out a way through daily life to best manage our PTSI in a society that thinks we should just rub some dirt on it, get over it, and walk it off. And never talk about it at all.
In truth I have zero belief that when this individual is sentenced there will be anything given of meaning. And in my case it having little belief in any of these systems does effect your mental health as well.
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