The inbound lanes were incredibly tied up for a Wednesday night. Jessy had no idea of why, nothing was going on that she was aware of she just wanted to get home. Her last appointment had been a tiring one, the clients didn’t speak English, no one at the bank was answering the phone to tell her what to do or if an interpreter was on the way. Finally, after sitting there half an hour trying to be polite their young son comes home and he reads all the documents to them. A half an hour meeting lasted almost three and she was ready to go home and to bed. The documents were already in the UPS envelope ready to be placed in the drop box at her corner. Monday was a holiday and month’s end so it should be the last closing for the month as she only worked for one company at the time, her own business kept her from pursuing other work on the side though she often wondered about which would make her more, her notary shop out of her house where she also sold homemade beauty items or if she should just do mortgages full time. Both jobs could be done out of her home and she could always have her mom help with the paper work and phone calls. She decided to think more about it at the beginning of the year.

Deep in thought the woman did not notice the car on the other side of the median strip swerve out of control. An outbound car driven by a young woman who had just gotten her driver’s license lost its brakes and in her fear she veered out of her lane and up onto the divider hitting hard enough to launch her car through the air. The small car flipped as it rocketed through the congested traffic and came to an abrupt stop, directly on the roof of Jessy’s vehicle crushing the roof and smashing out all the windows, it pinned the doors shut and even if the occupant hadn’t been knocked unconscious my the accident she would not have been able to remove herself from the box that her vehicle had become. Mara, the young woman in the compact car fared much better by being ejected through her driver’s side window. She broke an arm when she hit the macadam and somehow did no further damage to herself, Jessy was not so lucky. While normally only five minutes from the nearest hospital the traffic jam caused the ambulance to take nearly 30 minutes to get to the scene. In the meantime Jessy, newlywed, mother of two teenagers, self-employed business woman, quit breathing. The EMT who arrived reached through her broken window for vitals while waiting for the equipment needed to remove her from the wreckage. A tow truck was about a quarter mile ahead in the traffic jam and when the driver heard the call come across his scanner he made his way backwards through the mess to try and help. A online ordained minister was in the car next to hers and when she stepped out of her car to see if she could be of any assistance it took only one look from the first responder to give her all the answer that was needed., when the police arrived she was the one that offered to begin making calls to the family via Jessy’s cell phone as the police and paramedics were both busy cutting her body out of the carnage.

When the ambulance pulled away there were no flashing lights, they weren’t needed, Jessy didn’t make it through the accident, her skull was crushed from the sheer weight of the cars.