Car Accident?
I really did not have much to write about again tonight. Work days are very dull affairs. Saying business activities is a good way to get fired. But something did happen on my commute back home.
The commute gets pretty busy in the afternoon, so I usually head home in the evening. More late hours, but I’m not married, so what the hell. This also lets me zoom down the highway home instead of sitting in traffic. The HOV lane opens to everyone, so it is basically a 3 lane highway.
Anyway, one car in the HOV lane was being held back by a slower one. The highway was about to go into an onramp where the HOV has a separate single lane. So to pass, it crossed a couple double white lines at the last second and attempted to go on the normal onramp. Unfortunately, this meant it directly side-smacked into the car in front of me. They kind of rebounded off each other. I think the car in front of me really wanted to stop, but the impatient car rushed back into the HOV lane never to be seen again. I believe that the car in front of me might have tried to hunt the car down though because he sped up and started off into the left lane.
I was not sure what to do at that point. These are the moments where it would be good to have a dash cam. It wasn’t like I was focusing on license plates or anything. So I would not be much of a witness. I also wonder what I would have done if I had been the slow car that had blocked the car in the HOV lane. After he hit the car, would I have stopped to block him in? Would I have even noticed what happened behind me? In that sense, I don’t think I can blame the driver in the HOV lane. (The slow one, not the accident causing then running one.)
So yeah, nothing ever exciting really happens to me. I guess I could have followed the car that was hit, but I was selfishly grateful that neither of them stopped. An accident on an onramp can cause really long delays. This is kind of why I think we need better ways for cars to talk to each other.
I think I will try to explore that idea another day. Probably a work day because nothing ever happens to me.
Sincerely,
Guy who screwed up and fell asleep before finishing this post.