Thursday, July 20, 2023

Sad Drive

Yesterday wasn't a good day.  I left for errands and happened upon an accident that had just happened.  I decided to get out of my car to see about a truck that went down a small embankment and hit a hill because it didn't look like anyone got out of the truck.  What I didn't see was there was another car involved that was blocked by the truck in front of me (who drove around the accident and left).

I won't go over the details, but it was an unrestrained child with massive head and back trauma and a mother driving with crush injuries.  I did everything I could until rescue came -- not much I could do though.  He died at the scene.  I won't say more because it's very upsetting and doesn't need to be spelled out.

Oh boy.  It was so sad and hard.  I was there for over an hour because my car got blocked by firetrucks.  The driver of the truck was in shock so I stayed with him while rescue attended to the other car.  

Life changes in a milli-second.  Those poor people.  

I didn't want to drive anywhere after that, but I couldn't turn around without sitting in the traffic again so I continued with errands.  That helped wash out some of the feelings.

I leave it at that for today.  It doesn't feel respectful to chat about other things this morning.  


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