My wife and daughter traveled to Greensboro, NC this past weekend for a soccer tournament. Before she left, I checked with her to make certain she had gotten the car service and purchased the new tires that she needed on her car. She had. I also checked the oil, washer fluid, condition of the wipers and made sure that her windshield was clean before she set out on the 2 hour journey Saturday morning. In other words, I did everything I could to prepare them for a safe trip.
Having been married to me for almost sixteen years now, my wife is all too familiar with the life altering consequences of a serious auto accident. She understands that mistakes are made in milliseconds, lives changed in a blink of an eye.
Because of this familiarity, it isn’t like her to speed, check her phone while she drives, make abrupt lane changes, or drive aggressively. For this I am grateful.
But one never knows what is happening in the vehicles that surround us every day.
After holiday weekends, I often see an uptick in calls about injuries resulting from car accidents. The fortunate ones have minor injuries. After their broken bones mend, the cars are repaired or replaced, those accidents will become distant memories for them. Nothing more than a blip on the radar.
For others, the accident becomes a defining moment in their lives. Such as the motorcycle accident that happened this past weekend in Tazewell County in a which a 55 year old man died. His family and friends will begin to view that accident as a defining moment, the chapter that came before the awful night they lost someone they loved and the chapter that will come next, the one where they learn to carry on. I wish them well with the latter.
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