Sometimes it takes a jolt to put business and life in proper perspective. In this case, my husband Scott and I narrowly missed being involved in a major traffic accident several days ago while we on our way back to NJ after a brief trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.
As we headed west on I-580 during the morning rush hour on August 13, a car two lanes to the right suddenly went out of control, bounced off the concrete barrier on the right shoulder of the expressway, careened across three lanes of heavy traffic a few feet in back of us, was broadsided by another car, and then crashed nose first into the concrete barrier bordering train tracks in the median. Clearly there was severe damage to vehicles. Undoubtedly there were injuries.
As the reality of what happened set in for both of us, Scott and I discussed how grateful we are. Not just because we weren’t