The news story was released today about what happened last night on the highway that backed traffic up until just before 2:00am. Apparently a girl was killed on the highway, just west of the bridge. She was walking actually ON the lanes, and trying to hail a passing vehicle, when she was hit by an SUV going full speed down the hill. She was fifteen. There are a lot of questions that we’ll likely never know the answers to, like what in the world she was doing out on the highway without a vehicle. Was she hitch hiking? Had she been fishing under the bridge? A party, maybe? Was she trying to get away from someone, and in desperation, was out on the highway trying to get help? We won’t know. That poor driver, tho. What could they have possibly done differently? No one expects a person to be on the highway, and going 120 km/h down a hill, there likely wasn’t much that could have been done. I can’t imagine being the driver, or even worse, being the mother of that young victim. Regardless of what she had been up to earlier, whether she was in trouble or not, this was tragic.
Hug your family and friends as much as you can.