Your Semi-Miraculous North Carolina Car Accident: How You Averted Serious Disaster, and What Can You Learn
You or someone you care about was recently hurt in a North Carolina car crash that, frankly, could have been a lot worse.
• Perhaps a driver zipped through a red light and hit the passenger side door…fortunately, no one was sitting in the passenger seat at the time;
• Perhaps a truck ran you off the freeway, mangling your vehicle. But due to the proper deployment of the airbags and a lot of luck, you escaped the crash unscathed but for a few bruises and scrapes;
• Perhaps a DUI driver, who was speeding and fleeing from police, swerved into your lane, causing you to swerve into a nearby sidewalk, where you nearly hit a pedestrian. Fortunately, the pedestrian saw you coming and leapt out of way at the last minute;
• Perhaps your car spiraled off the road after hitting black ice during a snow storm, and your car got stuck in a wooded copse – had you slid off 500 feet down the road, your car would have plummeted down a 50-foot ditch, perhaps into oblivion.
It’s important to reflect on your good fortune (relatively) not only because it’s just generally good practice to give gratitude for things that go well (or not as bad as they could have gone), but also because you can learn a tremendous amount about your own driving, about the kinds of risks you face, and about how to mitigate against those risks effectively.
For instance, perhaps when your winter weather-related accident occurred, you had been dozing at the wheel a bit or distracted by a cell phone call or upset by the scream of a toddler in the back seat. Note this. And you will begin to appreciate just how dangerous driving distracted can be. You might even be inspired to take action to prevent the destructive behavior in the future. Alternatively, perhaps you got hit by a DUI driver on a Saturday night. Make a note of that. And change your habits. For instance, you might try to avoid driving near the “party zone” areas of your city on the weekends.
For more help with your North Carolina car accident, connect with a respectable and results-proven North Carolina car accident law firm.
More Web Resources:
Famous Near Miss Accidents
Learning from What Went Wrong on the Road
