Collision
They Just Get in the Way
3 min readOct 4, 2023
8:30 a. m. I’m east of Manchester, New Hampshire on highway 101, driving fast. I’m headed for Newburyport, Massachusetts to acquire inventory for my online book business. There’s a big book sale there at 10 o’clock.
Sunlight washes over the landscape on a cloudless October morning. Visibility is excellent, but traffic is heavy with a mere car-length or two of space between…
