A woman has shared the question a paramedic asked her after a car crash that left her feeling stunned.
Two photos shared by Megan McBurney (@meganmcburney) have recently gone viral on TikTok, racking up over 743,000 views.
The October 8 post shows McBurney standing in the mirror while posing for the camera, followed by an image of her smashed-up Mini Cooper. The text layered over the first photo reads, “one thing I’ll never forget about my car accident,” followed by, “the paramedic asked me if I had diabetes because he found chocolate in my car.”
The 25-year-old told Newsweek: “At the time, I was in shock from everything that had gone on, so I didn’t really think much about it but, the next day, I was thinking about everything, and it made me giggle.”
From left: A mirror selfie of McBurney; and a photo of her damaged vehicle. The question the paramedic asked left her feeling perplexed and viewers in stitches.
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The primary schoolteacher from Belfast, Northern Ireland, was involved in a single-car accident in September 2019.
“I was driving on a back road on a Saturday morning, and the weather was terrible. I hit a puddle going around a corner and aquaplaned straight into a wall and managed to roll my car and ended up upside down in the middle of the road,” McBurney said. “I had to crawl out my driver’s smashed window and somehow managed to walk away with just cuts, bruises and whiplash.”
McBurney was lucky enough to leave the scene without any major injuries, but the same cannot be said for thousands of American drivers. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) states there are over 5,891,000 vehicle crashes each year. Approximately 21 percent of these crashes—nearly 1,235,000—are weather-related.
Most such crashes occur on wet pavement and during rainfall. In contrast, fewer crashes happen in wintry conditions such as during snow or sleet, or on icy pavement.
In the comments, McBurney explained to other users what happened, but the main purpose of the video wasn’t to raise awareness about car accidents. She told Newsweek that she shared the post as part of a diabetes-related trend circulating online.
At the time of writing, the clip captioned: “just a girl with a sweet tooth,” has more than 78,000 likes and over 230 comments.
“Sorry but I spat laughing,” posted one user, and another wrote: “Funny yes but also valid because if you were to need medications for treatment or something and you were diabetic there’s some stuff they can’t give you.”
“That is not what I expected,” added a third user, and McBurney commented: “As if rolling my car wasn’t traumatic enough.”
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