When asked an experience you could never forget, senior Tiare Taum said, “The car crash.”

“I felt as if my life flashed before my eyes, and ‘BOOM,’ the car hit the rail,” she said.

This year, Taum was in an car accident with her friends. They were driving down Tantalus Lookout, going above the speed limit. The result was a totaled car.

Taum said how fast the incident was and how shocked her body became.

She said, “When you’re in the moment, you feel numb to any pain.”

After the day of the accident, she was in a lot more in pain than when she got out of the car.  She said her seatbelt pushed onto her stomach when her friend slammed on the break.

“I was the first one out because I didn’t know what would happen to the car,” she said, when asked about how she was able to exit the car in such a state.

“I don’t ever want to be in that position ever again,” Taum said. “The car was wrecked, I was wrecked.”