That’s why I will be SO glad when the whole holiday season thing is over.
No idea where all these people are coming from or why they’re all driving like they’re jacked on crank.
I’ve been driving *even more* defensive as hell since the week before Thanksgiving and it’s mentally exhausting.
It’s as though stop lights/signs, right of ways, speed limits and lanes have lost all meaning.
One night, coming home on the interstate, emergency vehicles started flying the other way and just as I was getting to it, they used the emergency turnaround and zoomed ahead of me.
For about 10 seconds I had the chance to pray it was something past my upcoming exit, but *no*, it was just up the road another half mile.
In a way I cannot even imagine, a pickup truck was rammed underneath the rear of a semi *that had been parked on the shoulder* with its flashers on.
The driver’s face was inches from the doors of the trailer and the whole front of the rather large truck was under it.
Immediately, I was stopped, surrounded and trapped by over a dozen emergency vehicles and not one but two “jaws of life” trucks.
Sat there for over an hour and half, waiting to get another half mile to the exit, and home.
The driver was moving his head and hands and survived.
Since I had nothing else to do, I was on FB for the local fire/rescue call page and wound up chatting with others also stuck behind the accident, giving updates, since I was the one sitting right beside of it all.
So many insane and horrific accidents in the last two months.
As happens SO many times, because I had a random thought and dawdled somewhere for a few minutes when I was intending to go home, I missed being there for or in the accident.
I really think God puts those “yeah, I should go piddle around in Dollar General a coupla minutes” thoughts in my head.
I can’t tell you how many idiots have blasted by me to cut me off then only get stuck behind someone further up the road from me who was going slower than I was.
This is NH. Home of hills and windy roads with one lane in each direction and virtually no shoulder. Where they think they are going is beyond me, but opportunities to pass are not always plentiful and even if you do, there are no guar about someone down the road.
I was scheduled for court last week as witness to a bad rear end collision. I watched a driver not stop for a red light and slam the guy ahead of her who was already stopped. No serious injuries.
While I was doing minor first aid on the perpetrator driver, I realized the accident would be the least of her worries. Her list of charges are two for the accident and about seven drug charges. The prosecutor called me last week to tell me they are packing a few more drug charges on and the trial will be delayed.
I had a “wait just a second” experience when I was 20 years old.
I was stopped at a red light, waiting to cross the busiest street in town. Usually I would sit with my left foot on the brake pedal, poised to make a drag strip style launch when the light turned green, but this time it was different. A thought came to me, “hold on for a second” when the light turned green. Then a red Vega came from my left, running the red light.
If I had made my usual quick start, it would have nailed me in the driver’s door and probably killed me. I’ve always wondered about that little “tip” that saved my life.
Probably over a year ago, on 4Chan, the posters there were reading the articles on the Vaxxes causing micro clotting, and hypothesizing if they did, those micro clots would probably clot capillaries, and while some cell death in the skin or muscles would not be noticeable, micro clots blocking capillaries in the brains would produce symptoms.
The first symptoms would be degradations in cognitive function, and that would first manifest in the most cognitively intense activity people perform which was driving. They predicted a steady rise in accidents now, which would probably turn into a steady rise in dementia years, or even decades later.
Last I saw stats on auto accidents were bearing the prediction out.
“As happens SO many times, because I had a random thought and dawdled somewhere for a few minutes when I was intending to go home, I missed being there for or in the accident.”
I’ve been commuting for a project the last three weeks. The first two days I came upon accidents that had JUST happened (no police, etc. yet). Both days I had stopped to double check on something.
Last week I came upon a car that had slid on black ice into the ditch, with the police car just pulling up. Although I don’t recall anything that had delayed me.