to the woman who somehow thought she could make a U-turn from the center lane

It is a rare and precious moment, when such things happen, and we are for a moment face to face, staring at each other through our windows, seeing a person instead of a driver. And what strikes me most is how perfectly your expression mirrored mine: not guilt for you and outrage for me, but both of us stricken, shocked, and frightened, because something happened that we did not expect. There are people who will react in such a moment with outrage, because they have decided already that the other person is always to blame; but that is not you, and that is not me. Only afterwards did we understand what had happened, and I began to feel angry, and you perhaps to feel ashamed. In the moment, all we could realize was that something had gone wrong, and in that shock we were, for that glance, sisters.