Head -On Accident Developing Thoughts?

[meburdick]

I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago on 61 North heading up to Hannibal, MO. I was in the fast lane glancing down at a map, I looked up and saw the car and flung the wheel to the right and skidded across the slow lane and somehow ended up parallel parked on the shoulder. We missed by 50 yards at best and the other car just kept on going. A few minutes later I heard reports on the radio to be alert for a wrong way car.

I had something similar happen to me as well, but it's a different situation... You and I were on highways, with double lanes traveling in the same direction. This accident was a two-way roadway where each lane is expected to have a vehicle going in a different direction. When in the situation you and I were in, it is *necessary* to steer right because the person going the other way is expecting cars to be to their left and will veer to *their* right (your left).