Prayers for the family and all around. Accidents and shootings are the only things worse than cancer deaths to me...at least there normally is time with cancer to process it.
I feel like I narrowly averted a bad car accident a few nights ago, and it kind of haunts me. I was driving north on a two-lane paved road in eastern SD where they had resurfaced the road, but not yet repainted the lines due to "paint shortages," which just seems weird. Paint shortage? Why not, there's a shortage of everything now.
Anyhow, there was a 3/4 ton pickup with all of the lighting accessories that I could think of pulled over on the northbound shoulder, but this truck was facing south. I was completely blinded by all of the lights on the truck and slowed to about 20 mph before I realized it wasn't an oncoming vehicle, but rather one parked on the wrong side of the road with all of its lights on. Then I saw a dude looking for something in the road ditch.
If you're driving rural roads and highways, please don't do shit like that guy did that made me think I needed to drive to the right of him. Had I driven to the right of him without slowing to a crawl, I could have killed me, him, or both of us.
Also, if you have spotlights, foglights, other accessory lights, and your high beams on, your freaking hazard lights don't help anyone coming toward you from your front.