Bumper Cars on Ice
I've been working with Moody and Associates for about a month now, and things have been eventful recently, I'm currently progressing from the training stage to the autonomous work stage, and last Thursday was my first day working a site by myself. Other than the horses following me around the field while I was trying to get GPS positions and water samples, the work was pretty simple. When I left the site to take my samples back to our headquarters, it started snowing pretty heavily. I got out on Interstate 79 heading north toward Washington, and it increased to a near white out, with snap freezing of the road surface. A woman in jeep spun out in front of me near an underpass at the south Junction of Interstates 70 and 79. When I slowed down to maneuver around her, the guy behind me didn't slow down, and rear ended the Company truck I was in. The impact sent my truck into the jersey barrier and caused it to flip onto its side. I got a few cuts when the driver's window blew out, and I must have hit my knee, because it hurts when I put pressure on it, but Thank God it wasn't any worse than that. Since the accident was the fault of the driver behind me, the accident won't cost my company all that much, and we should get a new truck out of the deal.