I am reeling. Just found out my 2nd cousin died in a car accident on Monday afternoon. I think it's hitting me hard because he is the first in the family to die who is younger than I am.
I haven't seen him in a couple of decades, but we were pretty good friends as children, spent a lot of summer vacations together.
He retired a few years ago after being a policeman for twenty years in the second-largest city in Arkansas, and the head of their SWAT team.
His SUV was in a collision with a semi-trailer rig at a crossroads in rural Oklahoma. Not sure who hit whom, or how, yet. The driver of the rig was unhurt. My cousin's wife, in the passenger seat of the SUV, was unhurt.
If my cousin had been belted in, like his wife, would he have survived?
People! Wear your seatbelts!