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I was driving down the highway today, on the trip to pick up Sarah from school.  It's a fairly boring drive that I've made many MANY times before, so I was chugging along and thinking about the stories, as per usual, when I see a car careening... and yes that is the correct word to use... CAREENING toward me... it swerved into my lane, the crossed back over and hit the shoulder/hill on the other side of the road, then swerved back toward my lane... my first instinct was to hit the brakes, but instead I hit the gas and sped up... if I had hit the brakes, he would have hit me, as it was I only got the spray of dirt from his collision with the shoulder.  In my rear view mirror I saw him swerve back out of my lane and spin out to land on the shoulder/hill.... The truck in front of me quickly turned around to drive back and check on the driver... the car in front of that truck pulled over and stopped, the woman driving got out and RAN back to the wreck... I stopped her as she passed me and asked if she had a cell phone to call for help with, because I didn't have our cell phone with me.  She did... so since I have no medical training and no cell phone to call the authorities I decided the best thing to do was continue on to the school so as not to be in the way.  Honestly though, if I had slowed down instead of sped up I have no problem saying I'd be in the hospital right now, or worse.  He was going FAST.

I texted my husband and told him that I'd been pretty lucky today and to stop to get a lottery ticket on his way home.  He texted back okay and asked what I'd been lucky about, but I told him I'd tell him when he got home... this isn't the kind of story I wanna text to him before he has to drive home.

So everyone, drive safe!