Self judgment & believing in WAZE

In Parshas Shoftim, the Ben Ish Chai reads "judges and officers at your gates" as a call to stand guard over our own eyes, ears and mouth. How honest is our own self-judgment in Elul? A businessman driving home through a violent storm finds the only hotel is twenty-five miles away. A gas station attendant sends him to an old age home out back, where a room has just opened up: an hour earlier, a ninety-five-year-old man had died in it. Why was he sent there, and what does it have to do with trusting a voice that says "turn left" when your gut says right?