2019-05-23, The Accident

Good morning readers! TGIF for you if this is your morning time!

I started my day as usual. I had figured out a better way to tackle the problem. I was making good progress. I even didn't take a lunch break and continued to work since I was on a roll.

I left the office a little bit earlier and thought it has been a good day. While I enjoyed listening to an audiobook 《The Origin》by Dan Brown, a white sports car passed by and cut in from of my lane in very high speed. Jesus that was dangerous! I thought.

Since that car was so fast, I was soon far behind it. As I saw from far ahead, it was trying to pass a big truck by cutting off other cars in the ajacent lanes. And all of a sudden, I heard a "BOOM!" A small blue car was crushed by an 18 wheeler because the small car was trying to avoid a collision with the same speeding white sports car. The whole thing happened so fast and so violent.

There was a big dust cloud erupted right in the middle of the highway. Four cars were involved in the collision about 200 yard ahead of me. Fortunately, all of them either pulled over or were hit to the roadsides. the traffic was almost stand still except, my car was the second one behind the accident scene. The momentum carried my car right to the accident site. Since all cars involved in the accident were on the roadsides, I slowly followed the other car in front of me and drove passed by the site. We had to try to avoid the debris spreading all over the road.

Looking back through my rearview mirrors, I saw the traffic was stopped behind me. Hopefully, since all cars pulled over to the sides, at least this was not a fatal accident. I was so shaken up by the accident that I found my hands were still trembling afterwards.

Life is so fragile, so please be safe!