Pace on Earth

Right Place Wrong Time

On the way home from Christmas in Bristol yesterday (which was wonderful but will be expanded on in a future post) the roads were quite shitty. Aunt Margie asked me to drive as she wasn't very comfortable driving in the snow. We left Sarah's and the roads weren't too bad but they got progressively worse as we drove south. Just outside of Woodstock they started to get a little slushy but still seemed ok. I was driving at the back of a cluster of cars when one of them swerved towards the center divider and then shot back the other way doing a 360 into the ditch. I slowed and pulled over. I started running back to see if they were allright when the driver of another car that had stopped ducked into the woods in front of me. I didn't know where he was going until I looked into the edge of the woods and saw an overturned SUV. The car that I saw was likely trying to avoid this truck that lost control out of my line of sight. We got to the truck and the two people inside were conscious but shaken. The doors wouldn't open so we had to pry the back hatch so they could crawl out. They did and, thankfully, the ambulance arrived almost immediately. Scary stuff. We saw three more cars off the road on the way home so we kept it pretty slow and steady and made it home.

It reminded me of my fateful trip in the Bronco way back when. Being upside down in a vehicle is strange and scary. Adreneline is an impressive drug though.

I also can't help but think how dangerous it would have been if that had have happened at night. No one would have seen that SUV in the woods unless they saw it go off the road. Point being; slow down.

That's todays lesson kids.

posted by Vitamin S @ 6:01 p.m.