One night and earl morning it was pouring rain. I needed to make it to an early morning meeting. It wasn’t my choice to be on the road. I pulled out of my hotel room and entered the freeway. I encountered wet patches that seemed to lift my vehicle. The faster a vehicle drives in the rain the vehicle and weight becomes less heavy and lifts of the ground. It’s another good reason why I don’t want to travel with other vehicles besides me or close to me. Drivers tend to drive like sardines in the rain and that night someone was driving on my left way to close. So, I pulled ahead a little faster to get ahead of the driver. I took a ramp off on to another quiet freeway. After about ten minutes of driving I took an exit off. This exit happens to be a long exit that merge into another exiting ramp if a driver doesn’t get into the left lane into another freeway.
While driving down the exiting ramp I saw flashing emergency lights at the end of the ramp. The exiting ramp was closed. As I approached closer the emergency vehicles were blocking the exit, but no emergency workers visible. Then visible was the white Camaro that failed to exit the ramp. It was if the driver tends to exit to the left but realized he or she wanted to stay on the exit ramp but it’s wet, slippery, and maybe going too fast and the driver slams into divider concrete on the driver side and spinning the vehicle onto ongoing traffic and setting off the airbags on the visible passenger side with the windshield wipers still going. When airbags are deployed a vehicle is considered a total loss. Could the driver be alive? Why weren’t any emergency workers visible? Were the emergency workers taking a moment of silence in their vehicles for the driver? With this in mind, slow down in the hard rain, try to keep adequate space between other drivers, a wet patch could cause a driver to brake or even stop suddenly, or even swirl into another lane, or even off the road. Drive defensively when driving on roads with other drivers out there.
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