I’ve never been involved in a head-on/side collision before, but this was an interesting first. We were at a standstill on a 4-lane road waiting to make a left turn when we saw a Ford Expedition crash into a Honda-like vehicle from behind pushing the car 10-15 feet forward straight into our car. It’s the wierdest feeling seeing the 1st part of the accident and seeing the car skid into you knowing full well that it’s gonna hit. The impact came from the front left side so Alex’s driver side took the biggest hit. Alex leaned over towards me a bit as he and I braced for impact. I saw a swooosh of smoke come up from the hood of the Japanese car with all three cars smashed together in the middle of the road. I was feeling ok, but my immediate thought was picking up the kids. I’ve been late to pick up the kids before, and the look of disappointment I see in their face that we “forgot to pick them up” is certainly a sad sight. So I grabbed my purse quickly, the kid’s visor cards (ID for pickup), and made a dash for the school (luckily, this time the distance I had to walk was very short). From a bystander’s point of view however, I was basically fleeing the scene of an accident so that must’ve looked kinda strange. There was a very nice man that came immediately to everyone’s aid and he offered to be a witness for the accident. The Expedition ended up on top of the other car’s trunk, and a kid (maybe 8-10 year old) in the small car was sent to the hospital in an ambulance because he had complained of back pains. By the time I picked up the kids and returned to the scene of the accident, there were 5 police cars there, an ambulance and apparently two firetrucks (one of which had left by the time I returned). There were tons of spectators there as we waited for Julia to come pick us up. Alex actually managed to drive our car home later on, but regretted that decision because he had a difficult time getting the car to make right turns. Anyways, I’m just thankful that the accident was not more serious and that our kids were not in the car when it happened. Alex told me later that the passengers of the large SUV were both teenage boys probably no older that 16, and that the kids were probably distracted and didn’t pay attention to the Honda vehicle parked in the middle of the street waiting to make a left turn opposite from us.