Man it was just going to happen

No matter what RB says I pride myself on being a conscientious driver. Yes I may be a little aggressive, and yes I may tend to push the edge of the speed limits. However I always pay attention and do my best to keep out of bad situations. But sometimes I think luck is just working against you sometimes. Yesterday was one of those times for me. It seemed like every driver on the road was trying to hit me and ever pedestrian was trying to get me to run them over. When we went to lunch two people in two different parts of town stepped out in front of my rental from behind trucks. I had actually been drive very conservatively so there wasn’t even a panic to avoid them. But I wasn’t so lucky later on with another car.

I went a slightly different way to the hotel after work. Instead of taking the freeway I took surface roads I knew would take me by a small grocery store. I wanted to grab a lean cuisine meal or something similar for a light dinner. I was toying with the idea of running back to the hotel, working out, then going to a launch party Harley-Davidson was having for one of their new bikes. I had traveled this route several times before and didn’t think much about going this way. There was a lot more traffic than usual and everyone was driving a little aggressively. So after I stopped at the store I got back into the rental and started back to the hotel.

At the next intersection the bad luck that had been circling all day struck. I was in the middle of an intersection, with my blinker on, waiting to make a left hand turn. The light turned yellow I waited for all the cars to go through the intersection and when it was clear I started turning left. That is when another car that had been quite a ways off a second ago, came around the bend, down the hill in front of me, and ran the now red light striking my rental car. They must have sped up to try and make the light while it was turning or just after and not noticed I was turning. I had almost been through the intersection when they hit me so I assume they came pretty fast and noticed I was there at the last second. Luckily of course no one was hurt. The impact wasn’t that bad as none of the airbags in either car went off.

For the next hour we talked to the police, exchanged information, and dealt with the unfortunate situation. The other driver was much more shook up than I was and was shaking even an hour later. At first I thought my luck was worse than it turned out to be because the police office was going to give us both tickets. But a woman that had been perpendicular to the original direction I was traveling had witness the entire event and stayed behind to talk to the police. She told the police it was clear when I turned and the light was defiantly red when the other car hit. This saved my hide because I ended up not being sited for anything. This in the long run should as mean the accident is ruled primarily caused by the other driver and I shouldn’t be affected by it. Besides having to deal with the Rental car company, her insurance agent, and my insure company of course. Plus I may need to file a report with the state.

Thank god no one was hurt, and I am glad this should just be a story to tell but have no real affect on me from here on out.