Bad outcomes do occur on the roadway. Several weeks ago as I was driving to the airport on I-95 around 3:30am, a white Infiniti I20 whizzed past me on the left lane. The roads were slick from a constant torrent that had been ongoing from the night before. I was cruising around 55mph–I’d say the guy in the Infiniti was speeding closer to 80mph. About 15 minutes later, I approached a police and ambulance barricade. The Infiniti was upside down, with its front hood smashed in the concrete barrier on the left lane. A Cutlass station wagon was adjacent, with its driver’s side door crumpled.

I could hear the siren of an ambulance wailing off in the distance. I wondered if the driver was dead, but I supposed the ambulance would have kept kept its siren off if the patient were definitively dead.

While I don’t who is at fault, this is yet another reason why you shouldn’t drive 80mph in foggy, rainy weather with 50ft visibility ahead.

misc life, rant