03-02-2005, 04:47 PM
Monday night, coming home from work, was a night I will probably never forget.
It was snowing pretty hard. The roads were very slick.
Ahead of me as I was travelling was a full size conversion van. All of a sudden, he lost it. He spun a couple of times and then went into the ditch. Once there he bounced off the hill of the ditch and rolled not once but twice.
I slowed down and stopped at the side of the road and got out to help him. Another lady stopped as well but up ahead a couple hundred feet. She and I were down the hill helping the guy get out of his van (miraculously he was not hurt) and the lady was on the phone with 911 reporting the accident.
He got out, and as we were standing there checking him over and heading up to the road, another girl spun out and smacked the rear end of my car so hard that it slid back out into the lane of traffic. Luckily it did not get hit again.
The way the girl hit was on her driver side door. Her head went through the window (door window) and she was knocked out completely. Finally, after a couple minutes, as the ambulance was pulling up, she came to and began crying. Her door was so far caved in, that I could see her floor board under it. The ambulance arrived with a police cruiser and they completely blocked off the highway. The ambulance carted her off and a wrecker finally came to get me. I spent half the night at a gas station waiting for a ride and the other half at my moms house as it was a lot closer than home was.
Last night as I lay in bed, I realized that had my car been parked up further, that girl would have slid (maybe flown) down the embankment and slammed right into us and the van that was the original accident. I didn't sleep much after having that thought.
Now, I've always had a belief that there is a god, but I never worshipped him. I don't attend church, never have. This morning though (12:30 A.M.), I said a prayer and thanked him for watching over me. On my way to work this morning, I saw a rainbow and I knew that he was answering my prayer.
It was snowing pretty hard. The roads were very slick.
Ahead of me as I was travelling was a full size conversion van. All of a sudden, he lost it. He spun a couple of times and then went into the ditch. Once there he bounced off the hill of the ditch and rolled not once but twice.
I slowed down and stopped at the side of the road and got out to help him. Another lady stopped as well but up ahead a couple hundred feet. She and I were down the hill helping the guy get out of his van (miraculously he was not hurt) and the lady was on the phone with 911 reporting the accident.
He got out, and as we were standing there checking him over and heading up to the road, another girl spun out and smacked the rear end of my car so hard that it slid back out into the lane of traffic. Luckily it did not get hit again.
The way the girl hit was on her driver side door. Her head went through the window (door window) and she was knocked out completely. Finally, after a couple minutes, as the ambulance was pulling up, she came to and began crying. Her door was so far caved in, that I could see her floor board under it. The ambulance arrived with a police cruiser and they completely blocked off the highway. The ambulance carted her off and a wrecker finally came to get me. I spent half the night at a gas station waiting for a ride and the other half at my moms house as it was a lot closer than home was.
Last night as I lay in bed, I realized that had my car been parked up further, that girl would have slid (maybe flown) down the embankment and slammed right into us and the van that was the original accident. I didn't sleep much after having that thought.
Now, I've always had a belief that there is a god, but I never worshipped him. I don't attend church, never have. This morning though (12:30 A.M.), I said a prayer and thanked him for watching over me. On my way to work this morning, I saw a rainbow and I knew that he was answering my prayer.