A client asks: Was there a karmic reason for my auto accident in my brother-in-law’s car yesterday? Can you help me understand all that happened?

This was karma, but not yours. It was indeed karma of the woman involved. She was inattentive and was speeding, as you intuited. That is why she appeared out of nowhere. There were some physical circumstances, as you deduced as well, in having the car pointed to the left by the exit ramp itself, even when your intention was to cross over the roadway to journey on the street before you. This set you up to not look as hard to the right as would happen normally, and in addition, the row of palm trees with the trunks lined up at just the worst angle to block the view of any car halfway down the block created a false sense of security. When you notice there is a car present, you automatically pause further to assess its speed and point of convergence, to judge whether or not there is time to cross safely in front of them.

Not knowing a car was present, you were lulled into a false sense of security and naturally proceeded. It was because she was at that precise point, and then in the bargain was not watching where she was going, and was speeding, which set this whole thing up to end in misfortune. You were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and served as the means to make the karma appear for her. This is the way karma operates. It does not always find two guilty parties to bring together. Sometimes it will bring an innocent person into play with a guilty party, and then things go from there. There are many reasons for this, one of them being that in prior karmic events the guilty parties created a worsening of things, and there simply needed to be a replay of the karma but without someone who would amplify the negative consequences and further worsen the karmic history, to embed it more deeply and groove it in with a heightened negative outcome.

Being a decent person who would not seek retribution, you were revenue neutral karmically speaking, and this is what she needed most, to have the misfortune but not have a new enemy created in having this happen. So you lost out as well here, but it is a loss you can incur without devastating consequences, and there need be no further liability with respect to your future. You can easily withstand the emotional impact here, and know these are commonplace events for which no one is judged unduly and penalized to a point where it becomes a life-altering penalty. That will be the case here as well, that you will move forward and put this behind you and things will be fine going forward.