How would you describe a car accident as it is happening?!
If you were in the car accident, not viewing it.
Answers:
Sights:
-- Car crashing into you.
-- Outlines of trees.
-- Headlights.
-- Others coming to help.
-- Ambulance lights.
-- Police lights.
Sounds:
-- People screaming.
-- The metal breaking.
-- Horn blaring.
-- Stomping on breaks.
-- Skidding to a halt.
Smells:
-- Burning fuel.
-- Blood.
Feelings:
-- Overwhelmed.
-- Confused.
-- Headache-y.
-- Nauseous.
-- Nervous.
-- Shocked.
-- Scared.
Touch:
-- The car.
-- Ground.
-- Grass.
I've been in a car accident.
Sights, sounds, smells? Are you joking? You don't take in ANY of those things. In the split second you have in which you realise something's gone wrong, you're not smelling, seeing or hearing anything. All your brain is doing is screaming "YOU'REGOINGTODIEYOU'REGOINGTODIE" at you over and over again.
I'd probably miss a lot of what was happening, since I'd be texting at the time.