My memoirs of driving include a memorable journey to North Dartmouth with some of my good friends.  We started out the day by having lunch at Panera Bread at the Dartmouth Mall.  After lunch we went our own way as I had a doctors appointment and my friends wanted to go bowling.  As we departed, I headed eastbound on Route 6 and overshot my exit and was forced to head further than anticipated.  Where I was unfamiliar with the area, I chose to take the first u turn I found.  I completed the turn successfully and began driving westward.  Unfortunately, I again overshot the exit….again my unfamiliarity with the area and traffic flow.

So, once again I found myself back where I started. I pulled back onto Route 6 and began heading eastward for the second time.  As I approached the exit to bring me to 24 North, my designated Route, I was unable to make the left lane for the turn due to traffic.  So I was forced to overshoot the exit once again and continued westbound on Route 6.

I had decided to make a u-turn at the first break in the road.  I was unaware at the time that it was illegal to make a u turn at  this single lane turn.  This time I was not as successful as my earlier u turn.  As I made the turn my hand slipped from the wheel while I accelerated and I was now on a collision course with the retaining wall across the opposite lane.  I reacted quickly and regained steering to avoid driving directly into the wall, but, had accelerated to the point where a crash was inevitable.  I managed to avoid a full impact into the wall, but, crashed the whole side of my car into the wall and stopped just a couple of inches in front of a telephone pole.

As I was receiving my citation, I witnessed 2 other vehicles making u turns where I had done so.  Unfortunately, or fortunately for them I should say, the officer was facing me and  did not see them.  From my point of view I could also see for the first time that the drivers side looked okay, however, the passenger side was in bad shape and the front bumper and accompanying license were torn away from impact.  Rounding out the damage was a damaged skid plate and bent tire rim on the passenger side.

While the officers on scene were required to call for an ambulance, I did not need any medical care.  This was fortunate, as the ambulance which they had called for drove by the scene and did not return.  Therefore, I was given the okay by the officer in charge to leave the scene.  I proceeded to head home without even a bruise from the incident, although I felt my ego received some minor damage.

On Ariel’s memoir I felt that it was a really good story. For most of her memoir I felt like I could relate to it with all the detail’s. ( I don’t have a job yet ) but I felt like I could relate to it by all the story’s I hear about work from my friends and family. I did find some words that were spelt correctly, but did not make sense for those certain sentence’s. I really liked the last paragraph on how they made it a better working environment. But overall I found her memoir to be really good and to have great structure to it.

My memoirs of driving  include a memorable journey to North Dartmouth with some of my good friends.  We started out the day by having lunch at Panera Bread at the Dartmouth Mall.  After lunch we went our own way as I had a doctors appointment and my friends wanted to go bowling.  As we departed, I headed eastbound on route 6 and overshot my exit and was forced to head further than anticipated.  Where I was unfamiliar with the area, I chose to take the first u turn I found.  I completed the turn successfully and began driving westward.  Unfortunately, I again overshot the exit….again my unfamiliarity with the area and traffic flow.

So, once again I found myself back where I started.    I pulled back onto route 6 and began heading eastward for the second time.  As I approached the exit to bring me to 24 North, my designated route, I was unable to make the left lane for the turn due to traffic.  So I was forced to overshoot the exit once again and continued westbound on route 6.

I had decided to make a u-turn at the first break in the road.  I was unaware at the time that it was illegal to make a u turn at  this single lane turn.  This time I was not as successful as my earlier u turn.  As I made the turn my hand slipped from the wheel while I accelerated and I was now on a collision course with the retaining wall across the opposite lane.  I reacted quickly and regained steering to avoid driving directly into the wall, but, had accelerated to the point where a crash was inevitable.  I managed to avoid a full impact into the wall, but, crashed the whole side of my car into the wall and stopped just a couple of inches in front of a telephone pole.

As I was receiving my citation, I witnessed 2 other vehicle making u turns where I had done so.  Unfortunately, or fortunately for them I should say, the officer was facing  me and did not see them.

I did not have to recive any medical care therefore I was okay. They still had to call an ambulance automatically. While we were waiting the ambulance had passed right by us. I did not break or fracture anything. I do not have any scars from the crash. After I had crashed the condition of the car from the view of my side ( the drivers side ) it looked okay, on the other side of my car ( the passenger side ) it was in bad shape. On the front view of the passenger side you could  see that I ripped off my front bumber and my license plate, took the skid plate off, and bent the rim on the front tire of the passenger side.

I am interested in the criminal justice course because a few of my friends parents are police officers and the stories that they have sound so interesting. I watch a lot of criminal justice shows and I have always been interested in being part of the police force.