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THE NIGHT OF Feb. 11 found me driving east on Northern Parkway, heading from Bishop Robinson's gala celebration dinner to Little Italy. There had been a freak snowstorm about an hour before, a product of the nastiest and most unrelenting winter we've had in ages. As I traveled in the center lane of a three-lane stretch -- doing voluntarily exactly what the House of Delegates now wants all of us to do by legislative edict -- a black car came up on the left. The driver was speeding, trying to get by on a street that had become slippery. The driver of the black car skidded into the left rear door of my car, sending my Honda Civic over the median that divides Northern Parkway's eastbound and westbound traffic. Had any traffic been on the westbound side at that moment, you probably wouldn't be reading this column. My Honda ended up going through a chain-link fence, clipping two vehicles parked in the yard and crashing into the side of a house. The Honda was totaled, but they say any accident you can walk away from is not really bad. The driver in the black car? He -- or she, since I never got a look at the driver -- kept speeding along Northern Parkway without so much as a backward glance.
Approximate Word count = 826
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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