A near hit
Yesterday, my wife and I were exiting a very busy, complicated, long, sweeping exit off of Interstate 4. Traffic up on the highway was at it's peak.
As I made the exit, I saw a Mercury Grand Marquis stopped 1/2 way down the ramp with his back-up lights on. He apparently had gotten off at the wrong exit. I swerved to the left as he began to back up toward the interstate.
I went around him on the grass as he continued to back toward the highway. My wife gasped as I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a tractor trailer barreling toward him. The truck went around him to the right in a huge cloud of dust, but the truck driver had to stop because of the panic. ( I guess to catch his breath)
All the while, the car continued to back up toward the interstate, with the obvious intention of backing into the high speed west bound traffic. I was too far down the ramp to see the end of the story, but I'm confident that it didn't end well.
JLK
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