I need a second to write this down…
I just got back from Maine. I drove up today to celebrate two dear friends’ graduations. The day was filled with laughter, good food, beautiful scenery, games and a warm spark-full fire. The majority of us stayed late into the evening, but I decided to drive home anyway - comfort of my own bed, guilty about feeding the cats, what have you. I left Saco, ME at midnight with a cherry coke in hand and cds lined up. I knew it was going to be 2 ½ hour drive home but I was mentally prepared to do it…
Nothing too eventful occurred until south of Boston. I noticed that there was more traffic than usual, taking note of the time it was somewhere around 1:45 a.m., I figured the clubs must have been getting out. I did notice some more “extreme” drivers aka speeders/weavers and internally hoped that no one around me was still buzzed from the club. I took my usual lane (second most lane from the right) and drove down the highway that I had spent many hours previously driving down throughout the years. After the last exit on the southeast expressway before the split, I looked in my rear-view mirror and noticed a car (Ford Taurus?) coming from the breakdown lane swerving into the right lane directly behind me extremely close to the car that was almost beside me. I glanced ahead to make sure I had room to maneuver/check for brake lights/etc. and when I looked back the swerving car had gone air born! All four tires were not touching the ground and the car was coming back down directly on its front bumper into my lane. It landed and spun around several times, hitting the middle guardrail, there was smoke, other cars swerved to avoid, etc. The impact that the car made and the extreme spinning that it did… I felt like I was watching a movie from my rear-view mirror. I can barely remember the sounds that I heard. In fact I can barely remember exactly what happened after that, all I know is that I continued to drive cautiously ahead and called 911. After I hung up (by then I was on 24) I came to the realization that if I was driving 1 second slower that car may have landed on top of mine. Then the what-ifs started to race through my head, the should-I-have-done-this-instead, etc. I am home safely now honestly thanks to pure luck and chance… I am saddened to think what may have happened to the driver and passengers…
So yeah… just needed to write those thoughts down, thanks for letting me blabber on… again… *sighs* I am going to go upstairs and snuggle with the freshly fed cats…
Nothing too eventful occurred until south of Boston. I noticed that there was more traffic than usual, taking note of the time it was somewhere around 1:45 a.m., I figured the clubs must have been getting out. I did notice some more “extreme” drivers aka speeders/weavers and internally hoped that no one around me was still buzzed from the club. I took my usual lane (second most lane from the right) and drove down the highway that I had spent many hours previously driving down throughout the years. After the last exit on the southeast expressway before the split, I looked in my rear-view mirror and noticed a car (Ford Taurus?) coming from the breakdown lane swerving into the right lane directly behind me extremely close to the car that was almost beside me. I glanced ahead to make sure I had room to maneuver/check for brake lights/etc. and when I looked back the swerving car had gone air born! All four tires were not touching the ground and the car was coming back down directly on its front bumper into my lane. It landed and spun around several times, hitting the middle guardrail, there was smoke, other cars swerved to avoid, etc. The impact that the car made and the extreme spinning that it did… I felt like I was watching a movie from my rear-view mirror. I can barely remember the sounds that I heard. In fact I can barely remember exactly what happened after that, all I know is that I continued to drive cautiously ahead and called 911. After I hung up (by then I was on 24) I came to the realization that if I was driving 1 second slower that car may have landed on top of mine. Then the what-ifs started to race through my head, the should-I-have-done-this-instead, etc. I am home safely now honestly thanks to pure luck and chance… I am saddened to think what may have happened to the driver and passengers…
So yeah… just needed to write those thoughts down, thanks for letting me blabber on… again… *sighs* I am going to go upstairs and snuggle with the freshly fed cats…