Damn man, I'm glad you're ok.
Dunno about US law but if that happened in the UK that lady be facing jail time for driving like that.
She'll just get a fine, probably around $200, that's about all she'll get. I heard she had an injured wrist and/or hand, but I don't know how bad. Looking at her car from a distance where I ended up off the road, her entire front of the car was crumpled up, worse than my car. Fortunately, I did purchase Gap insurance wehen I bought the car, so that will cover the $2000 difference between what the Insurance company gives me for the car, and the total payout amount of the loan. Also, since the accident was her fault, Insurance will cover all the hospital bills and my deductable, so any costs that are accident related I won't have to pay for. The only thing I'm out is the $1000 down payment I made from my bank account, and about $150 of accessories I put into the car that I couldn't salvage from the wrecked vehicle.
What a horror story. I'm glad you were able to walk away from that one.
This is probably a good moment to remind people that airbags are designed to stop people getting killed, not hurt. In some circumstances they can cause worse injuries than the crash. Never wear ID badge lanyards while driving, for example. There have been cases of airbags shoving those into the driver's chest cavity or perforating their intestines.
Yes, airbags can be pretty harsh on you, that was my second accident where the airbags deployed, but the first time the airbags worked good, and didn't injure me at all. I actually
was wearing my lanyard with ID cards from work around my neck, but it did not injure me at all, fortunately. I was worried about my stomach area, where I had a Whipple procedure done on me for pancreatic cancer a year and a half ago, but the blow to the chest didn't seem to affect that at all. My sturnum and the ribs around it are just very sore.