[katezbox]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

It's almost as if fate played a role in this. This morning, I was driving west on Calumet at 25 miles per hour. A cart, going in the same direction as me, was in the cart lane. All in an instant, a walker came toward the cart.

The cart swerved out in front of me and I smashed the brakes to the floor board, skidding the tires and sounding the horn. It was one of those stops where everything in my truck slammed into the dashboard and onto the floor.

A 5 or 6 year old girl was driving the cart. Grandpa was in the middle and had to grab the steering wheel in a panic maneuver to pull it to the right.

Folks, I came within inches of killing a five or six year old child today.

I lowered my passenger side window and looked out at Grandpa. He wouldn't make eye contact with me. He turned his head to the right away from me. Traffic was panic stopping all around me, so I had no time to speak to the grandfather.

I was so shaken that I had to pull onto a side street and stop. I wanted to exit the truck and speak to grandpa, but they were gone.

I called the sheriff and got the answer I expected. Since there was no registration on the cart, there is no way to identify it and there is nothing they can do.

TH,

I hope you are OK - that must have been unbelievably scary. I came very close to disaster last week in our cart when a large car at a high rate of speed and no turn signal swerved in front of me to enter a rec center parking lot. I was halfway across the entrance when it happened.

I hope that Grandpa looks at himself in the mirror and sees what a loss he might have been responsible for

kate