I had just gotten my drivers licence and I was on my way to work. I was on two-lane road, 50km/h, completely distracted because I was 16 and invincible, probably pissing around with the radio that I didn't notice the cars in front of me stopped at a crosswalk. I slammed on the breaks, but I couldn't stop in time and was forced into the on-coming lanes to avoid hitting the car in front of me. As I passed, I saw that in front of that car in the crosswalk was a Mom with a couple toddlers. So many things could have happened, I could have plowed into that car and sent them into the Mom & kids, or it could have been a second or two later when they carried on through the crosswalk in the oncoming lanes. I had to pull over after that to cry and try to calm down.
It still makes me sick to my stomach to think about 20 years later. It was a hell of a wake up call.
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