Drivers thoughtless and unsympathetic

On the luckiest day of this century, July 7, 2007 (07/07/07), my son, Tom and his girlfriend, Allison, were involved in a terrible collision on Kennedy Road, just south of Highpoint Sideroad.

Thankfully, the Young Drivers of Canada courses that he took kicked in and he avoided a would-be head-on collision when a driver travelling southbound pulled out to pass a large white sedan. The impact was not completely avoided, however, and the driver's side of the car, front to back, was destroyed, but Tom and Allison literally walked away with a couple of minor lacerations.

Our family has learned a couple of interesting things through this. Unfortunately, people really are as thoughtless, unsympathetic and cruel as you think they are. The person driving the white sedan, which was reported as a "white or light-coloured luxury sedan, possibly a Cadillac," did not interrupt his busy schedule to stop after the collision that he so obviously saw. Also, a witness - a man with his young son, in a black truck/SUV - willingly gave his name and number to the person responsible for this crash, however, when Tom asked for the same info, the man turned away, got in his truck and drove off.

Tommy and Allison are fine and we are all thankful to God for His protection of our children, but I can't help remembering the saying that my mother always said, "What goes around, comes around." The man in the truck taught his son a lesson in how not to help someone who needed a little help. One would hope that he would never have to experience that himself. And the man in the sedan, well, I guess when you get to a certain level in life, you don't need to deal with the common human sense of kindness.

Leslie Wiscombe

Caledon East