Things happen for a reason.

 

Like the time I was on I-95 and a lady in front of me was going 50 miles an hour in the 60 mile an hour hammer lane so I slowed up behind her and there was a state trooper to my left in the bushes with radar. Had the lady not been there I would have been going 70 in a 55 zone and would have been pulled over.

 

So on my way home from a client's board meeting tonight I took Carey Street off I-195 as it would be a faster route home. At the traffic light right before the Huguenot Road bridge over the Historic James River, I let a big RV going slow in the bumper lane into my lane in front of me to cross the bridge and we ventured across around 30 MPH.

 

As we left the bridge, I scooted around the RV to the right and into the bumper lane on Huguenot Road, passed the RV, and made a right onto Cherokee Road, slowing down to 30 MPH in a 25 MPH speed zone.

 

And then it happened. A WINN 60-passenger bus carrying a bunch of private school kids from their game at Trinity High School was coming the other direction towards Huguenot Road on Cherokee Road when a small white pickup truck burned through the stop sign on Southampton Road, a half block from Huguenot Road, and scraped the front of the bus that was traveling around 20 miles per hour.

 

The little truck threw off sparks and started to turn in circles as it disappeared onto a home's front lawn and ate a tree to stop itself. Had the truck been a second slower the bus would have tee boned that truck and probably sent him flying in my direction. Had the bus been a second faster the truck would have tee boned the bus and the two occupants of the truck would have probably been killed.

 

I hit the brakes and called 911 immediately and got out of my car and went to the truck to pull the driver out. His passenger had a head injury and was bleeding and others were trying to open the passenger side door to get him out. The driver was shaken (not stirred) and confused but otherwise he seemed to be OK. The bus driver was physically OK but he was shaken up. I have no idea if any of the kids on the bus were injured.

 

Between us girls I think the driver was drinking and got confused as he left either Huguenot Flatwater or the Pony Pasture where the teenagers hang out and he may have thought he was on Huguenot Road. Anyway, between the seat belts they were wearing and the air bags that deployed, both seemed to be shaken up but not injured badly.

 

I then left the scene as about 40 people from around the local houses and the drivers/passengers in the cars behind the bus and me were arriving and they were on their cell phones, probably with the Richmond Police emergency dispatchers.

 

The Richmond Ambulance Authority called me asking where the accident was and I told them. They were dispatching an EMT truck to the scene. And the dispatcher was gong to send a black and white to the accident location, too.

 

Had I not let the RV in front of me; and had I been going a little faster on Cherokee Road; that little white truck would have tee-boned me and probably cost me my life.  Someone upstairs was watching over me.

 

As for my wife, the $1,500,000 in life insurance goes back in the drawer. Better luck next time.

 

(Actually she was shook up when I told her the story and was very happy that I was not injured)

 

Things happen for a reason. We just have to figure out the reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As crazy as these events may seem, there's no such thing as coincidence......perhaps your living right. 

Just now, Bird said:

As crazy as these events may seem, there's no such thing as coincidence......perhaps your living right. 

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    Sometimes bad things happen to us to prevent worse things from happening to us.      jj

Moments and events are at once all related and completely independent, in fact the illusion that linear unidirectional temporal perception is a thing is in fact just that, our limited senses trying to make sense of entropy at work. Oh, and we are behind on quantum computing...

 

I suspect your wife gratefully put that policy back up.  The Lord works.

3 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

Moments and events are at once all related and completely independent, in fact the illusion that linear unidirectional temporal perception is a thing is in fact just that, our limited senses trying to make sense of entropy at work. Oh, and we are behind on quantum computing...

 

Do you want fries with that? 

6 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

Moments and events are at once all related and completely independent, in fact the illusion that linear unidirectional temporal perception is a thing is in fact just that, our limited senses trying to make sense of entropy at work. Oh, and we are behind on quantum computing...

 

Posts like this make me feel like I have limited resources between the ears. Lol