At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.
“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.
Halfway there, the gray sedan in front of him lost traction. It spun across the icy road and slid nose-first into a ditch.
Forstag’s first instinct was to pull over.
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