accidents happen

the more i hang out with the heather, the more accidents i seem to be witness to! last night on the way home from my indoor soccer game (which we won, by the way, so we go to the playoffs-- woo hoo!), a pretty bad crash happened right in front of us! we were in the fast lane going about the speed limit, since it was pouring down rain and it was hard to go any faster than that. an impatient driver came speeding up behind us, then swerved out around into the number two lane and back in front of us in the fast lane. heather was smart and let up on the gas when that happened. not ten seconds later, the speeder hit a puddle in the road and spun out, slammed his front end into the center divide, spun 180 degrees, slid all the way across four lanes of highway and over a merge-lane median, and slammed headfirst into the outside wall.

heather and two other cars pulled over to help. i sat on the phone with onstar and then with 911, as heather and the guy that stopped pulled the driver out of the (totalled) car. the guy who stopped was clearly an off-duty cop based on the way he was acting, the questions he was asking, etc. (and when CHP and fire showed up, he flashed his badge-- confirmed). he and heather totally kicked into gear, which is awesome. the driver had a broken arm and was probably in shock, but fortunately that seemed to be the only damage (other than to the car, of course).

after the accident, heather and i decided we should both carry flares in our cars (because the totalled car was sticking out around a blind corner-- pretty dangerous) and i decided that i should re-up my first aid and cpr training... just in case. these things seem to happen more often these days.