But the fatal crash impacted him beyond measure. Deborah said the once "happy man" became “very sad” and was “never the same again”. "Just imagine knowing you'd taken two lives," she said.
Now that I could understand perfectly well. Dying broken because you couldn’t find a job smelled like BS the same as anyone who uses that excuse.
Thanks for the clarity!!
I would imagine that’s a hard thing to get over. I’d think it’s something you have to train yourself in advance to anticipate.
When I was young, I knew an old man who was a retired railroad engineer. He once told me that he’d lost count of fatal car/train collisions and that he’d determined very early in his career that if someone died on the track, it was always their fault. It takes miles to stop a train.
I’ve got a few thousand miles driving full size buses. It’s a heady responsibility knowing that you are solely responsible for the lives of the 48 people sitting behind you. I also knew that my responsibility was to them and not to the other cars on the road. I learned to not swerve or deviate my path. Although I never had a collision it was always on my mind.