life is so short..♥

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not really the ideal topic for a brand new blog, but it's something that has shook me to the very core of my being today. i can't even seem to focus or concentrate, and my entire day has gone by in a blurry of worrying about others closest to me in my life.

this morning on my way to work, i came across a part of the road that had be cordoned off. after asking the police woman what was happening, she explained to me there had been an accident, another 5 minutes down the road, and that it was cordoned off with police tape, but that they would probably let me through [i worked just past the police tape].

i walked on down the road, until i came to the second section of police tape, and i was horrified by what lay before me. there were 3 police cars and about 6 police officers, and an ambulance. and there in the middle of the road was a bicycle, with little dots of red blood scattering the ground around it.

i asked if i was allowed through and i was told no, and after explaining that the police woman on up the road had said i would be allowed through because i worked just over there, past the police tape, i was told that the girl who had been knocked down, had died.. so it was no longer the scene of an  accident, it was a crime scene. so off i went in search of another way to work. i was almost 20 minutes late.

when i got into work i checked the news website, and i found out what had happened. a 30 year old woman had been on her way to work, via bike, and had been run over my a lorry. she was taken to hospital with severe head injuries, but she died later that morning.

but then came the most shocking news of all.. a friend of my bosses who owns a hair salon across the road, came over to say that his CCTV cameras had picked up the accident and the police had been in watching it. the girl had cut up the inside of the lorry to try and go straight on, and must not have seen the lorry indicating left. obviously the lorry driver would not have seen her with his height. the girl tried to cut in front of the lorry, on her bicycle, and the lorry drove straight into her. she was thrown up in the air, and she and the bike landed back onto the ground, only for the lorry to drive over her, and the bike, with both sets of wheels, and apparently it drove right over her skull.

the only saving grace is, despite the fact the poor woman lost her life, was that it was her fault! that poor lorry driver, has to live with the fact he killed someone, for the rest of his life, so atleast he may be able to find some peace knowing it was her fault, and not his, and there was nothing he could have done to stop it.. atleast he doesn't have to go to jail for manslaughter. she's already dead, so no good can come for her, but atleast the lorry driver may be able to get on with his life, if he's able to drown out his personal demons.

it's really got me thinking about the fragility of life, and how easily things are taken away from you.. and how lucky each of us are for still being here today, still standing, no matter what has happened to us. it's things like this that make you realise, you're still breathing, make the most of it.

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