Good Timing

Russ and I got in the car tonight to go somewhere and he asked me if I had the Waze app. I had heard about the app that is better at navigating than plain old google maps because it uses the intelligence of all the users on the road in real time so you can avoid traffic troubles and know where the cops are.
I thought I already had it on my phone, but I was wrong so I down loaded it and put the address of our destination in it. Turns out it was fortuitous timing. We were headed down the highway with our friends Lane and Jon an bit ahead of us. I got a text from Lane alerting us that they were stopped dead because of a terrible crash just up ahead of them.
Almost instantly the Waze app told us about the accident and offers us a reroute. We took it while Lane and Jon were out of their car standing on the side of the road waiting for the many ambulances and fire trucks to clear the scene. They were stopped for more than an hour with no way to go forward or back, while we were able to keep moving and not only avoid the accident, but all bad traffic too.
There was an incident sign alerting people on the highway of the crash and telling them which exit to take, while the Waze app got us off the highway earlier and took us a different route than the highway sign was sending everyone else. This was brilliant because we were not stuck on a much smaller road with thousands of other people trying to avoid the accident.
Thank goodness our friends were far enough back that they were not involved in the crash. When they were finally able to move Lane said they saw the two cars involved and one looked like it had rolled over multiple times. Poor souls, I hope that they survived.
I think I am going to use Waze even when I know where I am going. You just never know what might be on the road ahead of you.