We found out that my wife's best friend of the past 20 years' daughter died in a car accident the night before last. She was 16 years old. It is so heartbreaking. We will be driving down to College Station this afternoon so we can be with them this weekend, since we can't miss work Tuesday for her services. Please pray for their family - I can't imagine having to go through that.
She was riding with her boyfriend, who was bringing her home. They got off the highway and were on the feeder road when her boyfriend saw a bunny rabbit in the road. He swerved to avoid hitting the rabbit and strayed off the road toward a ditch. He jerked the steering wheel the other way to try to get back on the road and over-corrected. They shot across the road and the car rolled down in a ditch on the other side. He survived and is really torn up about it. My wife's friend is so strong through this and keeps consoling him.
My take from all of this is to just hit the damn animal. No sense risking the lives of yourself and/or others in the car to save the life of an animal that shouldn't be in the road in the first place. I may have swerved also in his situation, but I learned this lesson in a hard way.
My prayers go out to their family and to the boyfriend who will have to live with that for the rest of his life. It is so saddening.
