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This Grief Thing
Man, what a trip
It has been a bit over two months since my sister, my sibling all of my life, died from injuries caused by a senseless accident — careless behavior by someone with a suspended license. The driver was driving a borrowed car and was an uninsured seventeen-year-old. He did not flee the scene, but CTV footage that caught the accident shows him leap from the driver’s seat over to the passenger seat trying to avoid the responsibility for what he had just done. He was going to pretend his passenger was the driver.
But you know what hurt me the most when I watched the footage? (Side note; Just because a video exists doesn’t mean you should watch it. I regret it. I wish I had never done so.) He didn’t even come to the front of the truck to see what had happened to my sister as she lay on the ground unconscious. Neither of them did.
My sister was struck while walking in a parking lot. Not being careless. Not doing anything illegal or wrong, just walking across to the other side. She DID look, but this young man entered the lot off a busy highway too fast and into the sun, not paying attention. I bet a cell phone was involved. I will leave that to the investigation.
Her younger sister, one of my other sisters, was standing fifteen feet away watching this all happen. She can…
