becoming the news

driver rear side of car

driver seat

passenger rear side; trunk & back seat separated

front passenger door

Front of car

Last week I went on vacation and got a little more action than I bargained for. When a photographer is on vacation, he tries not to think about news (that's not easy to do). This time I became the news. While driving on a rather long road trip to Nebraska I got into a BAD accident. I'm lucky to be alive. Where did it happen? Abilene, Kansas. The town is much smaller than the one you all know and love. I was just 2 hours from my Grandparents' Nebraska town. It was cold, rainy and dark. I missed a stop sign at the intersection of two country two-lane highways. In that intersection, an SUV broadsided me on the passenger side just behind the front seat. The car is in two pieces; the trunk and back seat were separated. The only safe place in the car was the driver seat where I was. Luckily no one was with me. I escaped with cuts and bruises. The other driver got some stitches.