The part in benjamin Button, where the main actress gets hit by a car ending her dance career was a little like this. THey had a 5 min montage where they depicted all of the events leading up to the crash.
Before I saw the movie I would think the same things. My wife is a teacher, and the day of the accident, she calls me in the morning. The air conditioners broke that day at her school, so everyone was sent home. We went to the island to Ikea for lunch, stopped off at party city our there for some items for My son's birthday, went home.
I think, if the airconditioner hadn't broken we would of never been there, or maybe if we didn't stop at party city. I seem to remember going back for glow in the dark stars for my son's bedroom cieling. If I didn't go back... The light we stopped at where we almost made it through, I remember saying to my wife go go, but she stopped at the light. Things like That all seem insignificant at the time. I guess fate is something you can't change, because you don't know what's going to happen. If I knew I would've never even gotten into the car that day.
I suppose that saying "luck favors the prepared" is the only thing that makes me not afraid to go into cars again.
We bought a 5 star crash rated car as the replacement. New tires, no skimping on crappy ones.
What else can we do, drive safer, avoid driving in the rain, I don' t know. If it's going to happen again,
which things are going to be beyond my control, I hope I've prepared enough...
Thank goodness we all are ok.
Antonio