flattop40
Expert Expediter
Have you ever had a situation happen to you that makes you think twice? I have again and you just wonder how you walked away with out a scratch. This situation just reafirms my belief that everything you do is taken notice of upstairs.
Lets back up to Sunday. I am at a truck stop sitting in my van serfing the net and not paying much attention to things. Another expiditer from bolt express comes out the truck stop and gets into his van and leaves. I had already been dispatched on a load but pick up was 5am monday morning. I stay at the truck stop for about 2 more hours then go in do my business and head back to the van. As I am walking back I notice a bag where that other driver had been sitting. I go over and look at it and its the drivers laptop computer. I pick it up and go thru it for any kind of identification but there is none. I decide not to give to the flying J staff as I am sure it would become someones home computer. So I head to my pick up, take the run. After unloading and getting some sleep I contact Bolt Express directly. They contact the driver. We make connection and I give him is computer.
That is the good.
The very next day (tuesday) I get a run to Woodhaven MI, I make delivery and head towards my daughters house in Lansing. Heading north on I-275 I am in the middle lane. There is a car in the left lane about 1/2 car length ahead of me. The next thing I know there is a van shooting from the right of me within feet of me and hits the car on my left with all of us doing 65mph. The car that was hit did 2 donuts directly in front of me then slid backwards into the ditch on the right. The guy from the right was bouncing off the gaurd rail to my left. I stood on the breaks and stayed in my lane. Someone from behind hits the guy to my left as he was bouncing off the guard rail. I come to a complete stop in the middle of the expressway. Luckily the guy behind me sees the whole thing and doesn't rear end me.
So how did I walk away with out a scratch. Afterwards all I could think of was man I am glad I watched Days of Thunder where they talk about just staying straight and they will get out of the way. If I would have swerved one way or another I would have been right in the mix of it.
My question is..... is there a guardian angel out there? Is there karma? Most will say its the almighty but I think he has others who help him. Some may call them Angels. Or was this all a coincidence? Guess I am thinking about my mortality today.
I have seen other accidents. I have been the first on the scene where someone died in a wrecked car. So this is not my first experience like this. But my first that had a good with a potental bad and just can't help thinking someone was watching over me.
Oh and by the way. The person who caused this accident left the scene. How the van was still operational is beyond me.
Lets back up to Sunday. I am at a truck stop sitting in my van serfing the net and not paying much attention to things. Another expiditer from bolt express comes out the truck stop and gets into his van and leaves. I had already been dispatched on a load but pick up was 5am monday morning. I stay at the truck stop for about 2 more hours then go in do my business and head back to the van. As I am walking back I notice a bag where that other driver had been sitting. I go over and look at it and its the drivers laptop computer. I pick it up and go thru it for any kind of identification but there is none. I decide not to give to the flying J staff as I am sure it would become someones home computer. So I head to my pick up, take the run. After unloading and getting some sleep I contact Bolt Express directly. They contact the driver. We make connection and I give him is computer.
That is the good.
The very next day (tuesday) I get a run to Woodhaven MI, I make delivery and head towards my daughters house in Lansing. Heading north on I-275 I am in the middle lane. There is a car in the left lane about 1/2 car length ahead of me. The next thing I know there is a van shooting from the right of me within feet of me and hits the car on my left with all of us doing 65mph. The car that was hit did 2 donuts directly in front of me then slid backwards into the ditch on the right. The guy from the right was bouncing off the gaurd rail to my left. I stood on the breaks and stayed in my lane. Someone from behind hits the guy to my left as he was bouncing off the guard rail. I come to a complete stop in the middle of the expressway. Luckily the guy behind me sees the whole thing and doesn't rear end me.
So how did I walk away with out a scratch. Afterwards all I could think of was man I am glad I watched Days of Thunder where they talk about just staying straight and they will get out of the way. If I would have swerved one way or another I would have been right in the mix of it.
My question is..... is there a guardian angel out there? Is there karma? Most will say its the almighty but I think he has others who help him. Some may call them Angels. Or was this all a coincidence? Guess I am thinking about my mortality today.
I have seen other accidents. I have been the first on the scene where someone died in a wrecked car. So this is not my first experience like this. But my first that had a good with a potental bad and just can't help thinking someone was watching over me.
Oh and by the way. The person who caused this accident left the scene. How the van was still operational is beyond me.
