[SERIOUS] Redditors who saw potentially traumatic things as a child (e.g. fatal roadside accidents, family members having heart attacks, etc.) what lies your parents tell you to keep you innocent and how did you find out the truth?

When we were young(my brother and me) we were helping my aunt and cousins move from one house to the one catty corner from it, well as it turned out there were two cars that collided with each other, they were both trying to turn onto the same street from opposite direction's so it was basically a head on collision, i remember it was at night and we didn't hear anything because we were laughing at and singing to my cousins little pup and were having fun, so my mom comes running up to my aunt's house(the one were in the process of moving things out of) and she asks us if we didn't hear a loud bang, she tells us that there was an accident right in front of the house their moving into, so we all walk up the street and there's two car's laying on they're sides with a bunch of people trying to flip one of the cars over, so as we're all standing there across the street they get the car of and by that time the emt', cops etc... Were already there and i remember seeing a person laying on the ground and this these emt's go up to him and put a blanket over his body, now i honestly didn't think anything of it expect that i was scared to go home that night,i remember i kept asking my mom if we could stay at my aunt's that night(it was just my mom,my brother and myself) my aunt and my two cousins were also alone but anyway just the thought of someone getting into an accident and seeing them remove a person from the crash scared me, maybe because it was at night and i knew eventually we'd go home all alone, so anyway i remember my mom telling us not to scared because it was "just an accident" and that the people were fine, well it wasn't until a few years after my mom passed away that for some reason we were all talking about that accident with my aunt(apparently people said that street was haunted) and she told us that the person we had all seen was a man who was hit by a drunk driver and that when the car flipped on its side it crushed that man, that kinda freaked me out but it also made me sad that my mom knew but didn't wanna say anything so we wouldn't get scared, it also hurt because in a way my mom started the conversation with us but my aunt finished it with us a few years later!

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