Two people. The guy driving home from work was just in the wrong place and the wrong time. It seems so unjust. Why him? Why now? It is things like this that challenge my belief in God.
I recommend (respectfully of course) the book “Through Gates of Splendor,” by Elisabeth Eliot Gren. In 1956, her then-husband Jim Eliot, a missionary to Ecuador, was killed just as he was getting off the plane there, before he even had a chance to evangelize to them. He was young (?26?).
Well, years later a number of that Indian group became believers. I don’t know for a fact, but I also believe the actual man who killed Jim Eliot became a pastor of their church, and Mrs. Eliot spoke at some of their services.
We don’t know why bad things happen. However, God is in control, and God can find a way to glorify Himself through those things, bad as they are.
Someone said it well: God doesn’t promise us a smooth journey, only a safe landing.
I can understand that. The only (poor) answer I have is that God allows us free will, the logic of which implies that our choices have consequences for others -- some of which are awful, as in this case.
These things do test our faith. What's important is how we approach God after those bad things happen.
I miss the part in the story about which car God was driving. Was he arrested?
“Why him? Why now? It is things like this that challenge my belief in God.”
There is nothing that men can do that cannot be undone by God.