as usual my tuesday morning  started out at a fast pace-the  usual walk the dogs, feed dogs, cats, bird,chickens, feed men (in that order. do other various chores-out the door by 7:30 to hit the swapmeet and market-planning on being back at 10 to get some work done.

naturally it’s rush hour traffic- we have about 6 schools in our immediate neighborhood-it is a real zoo. i was stopped at a redlight at a major intersection , 2nd in line to make a left hand turn- i was not looking ahead at the intersection-i was getting gum out of my purse - and ka boom-an accident right in front of me.  a bad collision- a small suv going straight  and a BIG schoolbus making the left-no contest.  i did call 911 to request an ambulance-but i have to have to be honest- since i didn’t  actually witness the crash-i was not going to stop.  there always seem to be people who are calm and competant and step right up in an emergency-they know exactly what to do, i am not one of those people.  sadly out of  50 plus cars around (  i do not exaggerate)  NO ONE-NOT ONE PERSON got out to help.  so- i pulled over, stepped up to the plate and pretended to be one of those calm competent people. i got to the drivers side i could see that the driver was ok-the air bags  naturally went off -but she was conscious if somewhat hysterical. her main concern was her 2 year old in the backseat- who was thankfully safely strapped in her carseat and fine.

to sum up- the ambulance, firetruck, police, chp eventually  all came and took charge. the kids on the bus were all ok-the bus driver is ok-the 2 year old is ok- and i think the driver of the suv is lucky to have escaped with seemingly minimal injuries. 

i can only speculate that all those other drivers around were in a hurry-not wanting  get”involved”-but reguardless-it doesn’t really have any bearing on my actions.  as i said-i did not want to stop- but thankfully  i did.  i learned a lesson today- i won’t wait to see if the other person is going to do the right thing-i’ll just do it myself.