2008 Woodie Awards
Several students involved in different crashes
Rosa Gibbons, Staff Writer
Issue date: 2/20/07
Last Updated: 8/9/07
Senior David Dixon was sitting in the front passenger seat. He had broken his clavicle while snowboarding and was planning to stop at Whitworth and then go to the hospital.
"I can't say for sure whether the accident made it worse or not, but I do know that we were T-boned and that during the accident my neck flung to the left and then snapped back to the right," Dixon said. "I hit my head on the passenger window and had a nice lump for a day after."
When Dixon had initially explained the injury to his father, an orthopedic surgeon, he had told him that the injury would heal on its own. By the time Dixon got to the hospital, he needed a two-hour surgery and a six-screw plate to hold his clavicle together.
Junior Merrie Scharf had a somewhat different experience. A friend borrowing her car slid on some ice on Whitworth Drive and hit a snow bank.
The car rolled over, and the girl had to climb out the back. The car was totaled. This has made it difficult for Scharf to get to class, because she is a nursing student, and taking all her classes at the Intercollegiate College of Nursing.
"I can't say for sure whether the accident made it worse or not, but I do know that we were T-boned and that during the accident my neck flung to the left and then snapped back to the right," Dixon said. "I hit my head on the passenger window and had a nice lump for a day after."
When Dixon had initially explained the injury to his father, an orthopedic surgeon, he had told him that the injury would heal on its own. By the time Dixon got to the hospital, he needed a two-hour surgery and a six-screw plate to hold his clavicle together.
Junior Merrie Scharf had a somewhat different experience. A friend borrowing her car slid on some ice on Whitworth Drive and hit a snow bank.
The car rolled over, and the girl had to climb out the back. The car was totaled. This has made it difficult for Scharf to get to class, because she is a nursing student, and taking all her classes at the Intercollegiate College of Nursing.
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