Driving in SoCal
Traffic accidents happen every day on the South Bay freeway system. Everyone hears about them on the news. Sometimes you see the accidents after the fact as you drive by. And then sometimes they happen right next to you.
So on Wednesday morning a car rear ends the one in front of it as I witness this right in front of me. Not a big deal just a fender bender. Then on Thursday afternoon, a car right behind me in an adjacent lane decides to cut right in front of an 18 wheeler... smack!!! Very messy. Nobody got hurt but the car was in bad shape.
Last year, my wife and I were driving home in mediumly heavy traffic. A motorcycle zooms by us and I thought to myself, it would really have sucked if I had been making a lane change because he came out of nowhere. Motorcycles will often speed in between lanes to get to their destinations faster.
So we hit major traffic as we get closer to home and we notice there's an accident in the fast lane. As we drive by we're listening to the traffic report on the radio just as I peer over and see the covered body of, you guessed it, that very same motorcyclist just as the report announces a fatality involving a motorcycle. That one really had me thinking for a while. Zooming by me one moment and worm food the next... the admonition to "drive safely" really hit home.
I nearly got hit on the way home tonight. I nearly got hit HARD. I heard a screeching noise off to me left. I was in the far right lane and this pickup truck was in the fast lane. I can only assume he wasn't paying attention and for some reason slammed on his brakes.
He lost control of the truck and he swerved straight towards me! I floor the accelerator and he just missed my car's ass by inches. He slammed right into the bushes behind me. This all happened at full freeway speed which is about 80 mph.
This is getting wierd and scary.
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