Sudden Death

Orac is on vacation, reflects on a highway accident

Coming up on the 1-year anniversary of my bike accident, things like this still catch my eye:

...As we crawled through traffic, seldom moving more than 10 MPH and hitting the brake every few seconds, I started to fume, as is my wont whenever in a traffic jam. We were losing at least 45 minutes to this.

Then I thought about it some more. What caused my inconvenience at the end of a 10+ hour drive had meant the abrupt and violent end of a woman’s life and serious injuries to several others. The name of the woman who died was…

Via Orac - not an ‘original’ insight, but said with unusual clarity.

Posted by George on 08/13/05 at 09:51 AM
Geeky • observations •

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