Traffic Accident

The letters from our Soldier are few and far between and actually don't always come to us in date order all the time. Having said that here is a description of a little incident that happened back in December in the city of Samarra. Our son drives a Stryker, the Army's new armored personnel carrier.

"The Strykers were moving down the street at a fairly fast clip. I was bringing up the rear of the column. It's hard enough keeping the correct spacing under normal conditions but keeping a position in city traffic is nuts.

"The line of vehicles in front of me stopped suddenly and I was able to stop before I rear ended the guy in front of me.

"Can't say the same for the bus driver that was following me. His reaction time was too slow. He rear ended our Stryker. Dinged us up a little but we dinged him up a lot. I drove off - (leaving the scene of an accident) - with the bus sitting in the middle of the street with steam coming out from under the hood.

"I think I totalled it.