My husband and I were rear-ended this evening. It was not bad at all and it was at a terrible intersection so we drove nearly a quarter mile to find a safe parking lot to pull into. The young woman that hit us followed us all the way there. I looked at her as I put my mask on and my first thought was “she needs a hug.” I asked if I could give her a hug and she fully started sobbing.
It was hard to understand everything she was saying through her tears, but it seems she’s had a whole lot of bad luck recently.
We tried to calm her down. We tried to get her to reach out to someone that she knew. We tried to reassure her everything was going to be ok. In the end, I think the only thing we managed to do was to help her with the route to the house she was supposed to be delivering a DoorDash order to. I can’t help but wonder if I should have done more.
I really hope that young woman had a safe place to go home to tonight and good people that will answer when she calls.
