Whenever I am on a two-lane road, I think of your accident. This weekend I was on Austin Rd. to take Carter to the Petrocks' and on the way home I was noticing how just inches in some cases separate the two cars going in opposite directions on a two-lane road. These two cars are basically coming at each other, and I realized how easy it is for one or both of the vehicles to come too close to the center and collide.
That is especially understandable in the case of your accident. I still think something was wrong with you since you started drifting over before the truck got involved, according to the Tippins' guy, but with the way the road changes on the truck's side, with you coming over the line and him being close to the center too and not seeing you, it's understandable how the collision occurred.
I wanted to record this observation because I have been racking my brain over the past year trying to figure out how or why you crossed the center line. This conclusion made me realize that it's not like you crossed over multiple lanes of traffic-you were just a little too close or over the center line which isn't too far from where you were supposed to be to be safe.
I have also been jiggy about how Dad and Hope think you were messing with your phone when this happened, like changing a song or something on Spotify which wouldn't show up on the phone activity. This is just like drivers who take their eyes off the road to mess with the regular radio though-it's not an issue exclusive to the cell phone age, it's taking your eyes off of the road for any reason. You weren't texting, talking to anyone or on the internet so that is important to me for some reason. That matters.
(I added "seconds" to the title because such a thing obviously happened in a matter of a few seconds. Inches and seconds. Minute measurements but disastrous results.)
Love you boy!
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