Our recent car trips to the Outer Banks, Florida, New Orleans, and Myrtle Beach, have been without problems. Maybe we’ve been lucky?
We left for Orlando on February 14, on the road by 5:30 a.m. We overshot the Waffle House we usually stop at in Lumberton and had to backtrack. We ran into a parking lot on I-95 around Savannah, again near Daytona and hit even a bigger traffic jam in Orlando. Earlier, we missed a turn in Jacksonville and found we were on I-10 rather than I-95. On the way from Orlando to Fort Walton, even I-75 held us up for over an hour. We spent a lot of time on this trip inching forward a few feet at a time - of course we were always in the slowest lane.
Fifty miles from home on I-85, the car next to us in the inside lane suddenly left the road, crashed through undergrowth and rolled on its side before hitting a tree. We pulled over on the shoulder. Aloma dialed 911 while I headed back on foot to help. A trucker also stopped and ran ahead of me to the accident. I went down the bank with him to help a man get out of the car. The trucker led him up the bank and we forced him to sit. Aloma had arrived by now and she sat next to him and put her arm around him, keeping him calm. The man was in obvious shock but didn’t seem to have broken bones or bad cuts. The trucker said he was a emergency responder and another man arrived who said he was a medic in the army. Still no police or ambulance, although they had been called. We decided to leave since expert help was on-hand.
We hope our next car trip will be less eventful.
Seasoned Man
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