Man I think too much...

[Veronica]

I drove through this section yesterday 15 minutes before this accident. I saw the spilled asphalt, and slowed down a bit. All I can think is how easy it is to be inattentive for one split section and that one instant is life altering. Life is short. I think I'll have another cookie.

Thom and I sat on the motorcycle for an hour waiting for the road to reopen after I dropped off the car at the auto shop. Cold, cold, cold...

From today's Contra Costa Times

Crash closes Vasco Road
By Scott Marshall
CONTRA COSTA TIMES

Vasco Road was closed in both directions this afternoon after a cement truck and a Lexus collided head-on, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The 4:48 p.m. accident occurred in the northbound lane of Vasco Road just north of the Alameda County and Contra Costa County line.

The accident occurred after a motorist lost control in asphalt that had been spilled in the southbound direction, most likely from some type of construction truck, said CHP spokesman Scott Yox.

A Brentwood woman driving south in a 1991 Lexus began to spin out of control in the asphalt, bumped a 2007 Pontiac G-6 traveling beside her vehicle and then veered into the northbound lane, colliding head-on with a cement truck, Yox said.

The Lexus driver suffered a head injury and was flown to Eden Medical Center, largely as a precaution, Yox said.

Southbound Vasco Road was closed at Camino Diablo in Contra Costa County and the northbound direction was closed at Dalton Avenue.

[bikerchick68]

It's scary to think about huh? There are so many "what if's" in everyday life... I know I just keep plugging along and hope for "what if" instead of "when"...

pass the cookies.

[Veronica]

Yep - it's so cliched, but today is a gift. Enjoy it.

I guess I should put that in my goals - that I want to totally live in the present and stop fretting about past troubles and imagined future ones. It's so counter productive and wasteful.

V.

[Bikingmomof3]

Cliche, yet so true. Each day is a wonderful gift.

[Kitsune06]

That's why it's the 'Present'.
...that was a Peanuts strip, I think...

[Tuckervill]

Yes, things can happen in an instant.

Last Friday my Beetle got hit by a street sweeper at an intersection. He ran a red light! It spun me around and I slapped up against the door and suffered some pretty severe whiplash on my left side. I'm better now, thanks. My car may be totalled, don't know yet.

However, the whole time I was thinking about how my son's mother-in-law lost almost everything a month or so ago, when on the interestate, she topped a hill and rounded a curve, in the rain, and ran straight into the back of a flatbed semi. She took the brunt of the injuries to her face. She is now vegetative to some extent. I don't know the proper words to describe her condition. They told her family she would never wake up, but now she has improved enough that she recognizes our baby grandson and tries to get up when she sees him. But, she will never fully recover. She is only 38.

So, life is short. Be as careful as you can, but enjoy your life. Sometimes you just can't avoid that street sweeper.

Karen

[Xrayted]

I think everyday is a gift, even the bad ones. They can hurt like h*ll, but even they have worth.
Hard lessons learned through others hurt less but it's the ones that happen to us that tend to stick longer. Not sure which I prefer, but either way, I just hope I can learn from them the first time. Once is more than enough to deal with.