Thank you all so very much!! You are absolutely right ... Patrick was the only concern I had!! And he is fine ... already getting repair estimates! Evidently the person that was coming back to get the thing he dropped saw that there was an accident and the thing flew into a bzillion pieces and just got back on the highway and kept going!! He could at least have stopped to see if Pat was injured!!
That's what made me so angry after I got over being so scared! But, he's OK and that's all that matters!!