Almost a week ago now nearly 30 people were killed in an accident in which a trucks brakes apparently failed. It has been part of everybody's conversations this last week and its no wonder because it really was a horrific accident that has left many questioning as to what went down that very evening.... I am not talking about this accident on my blog for the reasons everybody else is talking about it for but rather because it got me thinking when watched it and after doing midterm demo's on prac yesterday, here is the footage of the accident, it is not a pretty sight but if you can please try have a look at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-9VtMiXqE
Its unbelievable how quickly and out of nowhere that truck enters and wipes out everything in its way, literally within a second it comes in and takes over. Well when watching that I had to think to myself when I did my drivers license test a few years ago before pulling off from a robot one was required to check left and right. Now after doing your license and having been a licensed driver for some time you think you know it all and never do you look before you pull off. You trust that everybody at that intersection is just going to obey the rules and nobody is going to be coming through that intersection when you pull off. Well for those drivers of the cars that got taken out by that truck had they maybe hesitated for a second longer and looked to their left and right to check before they pulled off they probably would have seen that truck coming at the high speed it was and therefore would've stayed put and not pulled off. Yes this does seem silly but its kinda true. Sometimes we just assume and we do not double check or make sure and its often those very times that we don't make sure that something goes wrong. And then you end up kicking yourself afterwards, why didn't I check, if only I had made sure....
Well that just about sums up where I am at after my demo yesterday. You can never be too sure is the lesson I learnt. After a treatment session goes well I think to myself why did I get so stressed and worried about it, I need to just relax. But the truth is all that stress and worry helps because it makes me check and make sure all is well, it makes me prepare 110%. So for me, just like the drivers of those cars, maybe that one time they didn't check and make sure the coast was clear was the one time they needed to. I am kicking myself now but it was a lesson for me and I will never make that mistake again.
Look left, look right and look left again, you can never be too sure.
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