What is the quickest way you've seen someone mess their life up?

Just a fair warning, there's going to be a lot of drug use and sadness in this one.

So, not so much bad as it was sad.

This happened around 2006 to 2008.

Can't remember exactly when, because I was about 11 at the time.

I had a friend in elementary school and middle school that lived within two miles from me and a CVS between our houses. Her, 12 years old, her little brother, nine years old, and her mother, about 40-ish,

were at CVS picking up a few things and were walking to their car in the parking lot. Apparently,

as they were walking, the mother pushed both my friend and her brother away from her. My friend

hit her head on the sidewalk and woke up to her brother screaming and crying.

What happened was that as they were walking, the mother noticed a car that was slamming on

the gas while trying to back out of a parking spot.

The car was heading straight towards them and the mother pushed the kids out of the way.

Car pinned the mother to the wall of the CVS and she died within minutes.

The little brother saw the whole thing happen and has since been struggling with depression

and traumatic PTSD since.

And my friend got a concussion from the incident, lost her mother, and has never been the

same.

Sad thing is that the driver wasn't drunk or high or anything.

It was a tiny little 80-year-old lady that wasn't used to driving the car and pressed

too hard on the gas pedal.

Don't exactly know what happened when the police got involved, but my friend has been messed up ever since.

This forum has had a lot of comments about terrible people that had done terrible things.

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