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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;
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Later I could see again, and I was aware of nurses and a hospital room. I could put my tongue into a hole under my lower lip. Now my shoulder hurt, and one of my arms was in a sling. I was still in the clothes I was wearing at the racecourse, and, because of a medical reason, my body had not been washed.
Distracted by his girlfriend, Tony had been late braking at an intersection and the old car skidded on the asphalt, still slick from the thunderstorm. We hit a vehicle that was travelling along the intersecting road. A family group at a nearby sports oval had rushed over to the scene; theirs had been the comforting voices. Tony was unhurt but his girlfriend’s body had not been treated well by the seatbelt she was wearing and the deceleration severely injured her back, hence the slow ambulance trip to minimise her distress. I had been in the little car’s back seat, but wore no seat belt, because they were not fitted to the rear seats of many vehicles then. I never saw the wreck of the car, but Rod later described the ‘V’ that my body had made in the front bench seat of the old grey Toyota, which at least had absorbed my momentum and prevented me from being hurled through the windscreen. The occupants of the other vehicle were uninjured, although my mother later said that the other vehicle’s driver had been found over the legal blood alcohol limit.
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