Some party

So it has been arranged a while,a big family get together to celebrate my birthday,oldest daughters birthday and a Christmas bash as youngest daughter and partner will be in the States at Christmas.
Mother is catering,so it will be fatal for her and any other diabetics present,I have made Bex, the oldest, a birthday cake and then frozen it,so that mother can't eat any and Bex can use it over a week as treats as she and partner have fallen foul of redundancy,
The plan is this,
I and youngest,Sam,will get a lift with youngest daughter's chap into town,we will wait there while he goes off to work and Sarah,middle daughter will pick us up having already retrieved Bex and Poppy from thier town and we will proceed to mothers for feasting.
So there we are standing on a street corner in a busy town mumbling about Sarah's ability to be late for everything,when Sam's mobile rings.It is the police,Sarah has been involved in an accident on the A14 and is being rushed to hospital,in fact the way the policeman worded it we thought he said they are being rushed to hospital,so even more panic we assumed Poppy and Bex were in the car as well,but after some reassurance we are told no just Sarah she is hurt but isn't going to die..........
So we ring father tell him sorry, apologise to mother, but we are about to make a mad dash for train station and get to the hospital,father says wait it will still be quicker if he picks us up and drives us over there.
Half an hour later we are at the A+E dept,can't see Sarah as they are assessing her,after a short while which seems like hours they let me in,Seeing your kid laying on a spinal board,bleeding and battered is pretty shocking I can tell you.
So there we are in the waiting room,me,Bex,Poppy,Poppy's Dad,my dad,Sam,James Sam's partner Sarah's ex Todd and his daughter arrive from Nottingham as his was the only number she could get out in her shock,her current chap who the ex has rung and her best friend,we have a by now defrosted and squashed choccy birthday cake,armfuls of gifts and several boxes and bags of Sarah's possessions retrieved from the road and the car by the police.Several of the gifts Sarah was carrying have been dragged down the road and had the paper removed but are otherwise fine,so we entertain the waiting room with Poppy enjoying raiding the boxes for an early Christmas.
The only things that don't seem to have been found are an Ipod and Sarah's underwear.
So we have nipped off and bought her easy to put on and take off jogging bottoms and oversized t-shirts,we have got her underwear and toothpaste and deodorant,cotton wool and girlie stuff.
All this because she didn't want to kill an innocent pheasant.........when the stupid girl is well I am going to beat her half to death.
Sarah has a completely snapped collar bone,may/may not need surgery,a black eye,a possibly fractured rib and a couple of seriously lacerated fingers and no car having rolled over and hit crash barrier.......