Black Cloud over Bonner County

In the last 3 days of our last weekend....

4 people died in 3 different accidents.

We started off with a woman whose car

was found wrapped around a tree up on

the Priest Lake road.  And she is dead.

Then up next... an impatience young lady,

passed a semi, only to just miss a mini van

and hit head on a loaded dump truck. The

truck ended up sliding into the mini van.

By some wonderful miracle, the people in

the mini van survived with only bumps and

bruises... Same for the dump truck driver.

Sadly not the young ladies car load. She was

airlifted to a hospital and her two passenger

died.

We barely got finish reeling about this great

sadness, when another lady who was also

impatient and decided in a merging lane, to

pass another merging vehicle, to end up

across the other lane and head on into the

coming car with her truck.. with two young ladies...

which the car behind them.. could not stop in time,

so rear ended the car.  The lady who decided to

pass.. sadly paid for that decision with her life. 

The rest are in various injuries.. The young lady

driving the car, has two broken legs.  She just

signed a sports scholarship this early summer.

All of this is so sad.. and one has to ask WHY?

WHY or WHAT was so important that these

ladies couldn't just wait a few more seconds?

The one passing the semi, was only a couple

thousand feet from a double lane where she

could have passed with ease.  If the lady had

been a little more patience, the traffic would

have blended well and she would have been

traveling across the bridge at a fast pace of

50 mph.   And the lady who hit the tree.. I don't

know..

But the fall out for all the remaining families of

the dead and injuried?  Was a few minutes worth

it?  I am not blaming these drivers, after all of

us at one time or another have been impatient,

and passed.  So far we have had the good sense to

make sure we had the room to do so.. and that

is why we are still here to read and me write this.

For the love of God, people.. think about it..

Some try to blame the road.. but it really comes

down to the decision of the driver... who makes

a bad choice.. and destroys so many peoples lives.

Too bad each time we go down to get our driver's

license, we weren't made to sit and watch what

has happen to these people.. and who all it involved.

The accident is only the beginning of the ripple.

What you want in and out.. sign your name, take

your picture and out.. TOO BAD.  TAKE THE TIME,

WE ALL NEED TO TAKE THE TIME.. being driving

or just in life.  And by the way... you know that friend

of yours, you haven't talk to lately.. or taken some

time with?  Maybe you better.. you just never know.