You never know when a crisis will strike. Like the one that happened to friends of ours last Friday.

The father and the four youngest of his seven children were in the family van, on the way to pick up their wife and mother at the airport. It had been raining on and off all day, but suddenly there was a cloudburst with rain coming down faster than it could drain off the road.

The father was obeying the speed limit — he always does, to the occasional annoyance of passengers in a hurry. But there is no speed that's safe when your tires lose traction on an overpass and you start to spin.

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