Jason Nierescher ran “a million miles an hour, 18 hours a day” working for a medical device company and running his family’s automotive repair shop. An engineer and entrepreneur, he had little patience for time away from work. When his family wanted to vacation in California, he nixed it as too expensive and time-consuming.

Then one day in November 2014, he says, “Things were clarified. I had a realigning of priorities.”

While traveling down a two-lane Michigan road in his beloved Chevy Silverado 2500HD, Jason realized too late that a garbage truck was blocking his lane. He veered, hoping to avoid impact, but his Silverado crashed into the large, loaded garbage truck.

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