Accidents

Sometimes speeding cars 
Spare some lives 
Sacrificing their own bodies,
Those that survived
Remain in lifelong terror
With mocking, taunting trauma.

While the ill-fated speedsters

Badly mauled and mangled
Leave behind for good
Blood-stained marks -
The marks of perennial grief 
On the long ride
Of their luxurious yet short life.

Accidents that occur, do teach -

Better go slow than never reach.