Was ejected from side window of a van at 70 mph. Wasn't wearing seatbelt. Broke window with skull, glass shards on edge cut into my lower back & severely damaged my L5/S1 vertebra. Landed on left shoulder & shattered it into 3 pieces. When ambulance took me to hospital, 6 nurses held me down while a doctor put 5 staples in my head (no anesthetic due to concern about time from accident to when I arrived at hospital). Only reason I lived is because I thought I was going to die & had accepted it- I wasn't bracing (similar to how drunks survive wrecks).