Car accidents

I got rear ended on the way home from work today. It was the kind of car accident that could have been unbelievably tragic, and that left the police going "Wow, are you lucky."

I was driving down the straight away on the highway towards home, when a huge truck (especially when compared to my wee car) came speeding up behind me and rear ended me. He was (as the cops surmise) coming up to pass me, but had not judged my speed, and hit me as he passed in the left rear bumper lights. I of course being the non speeding wee car, was spun at 80KM per hour around the highway towards the median.

Had I hit the median... I would not be typing this.

I missed the median, and though some amazing driving (or act of god) I was facing the wrong way, but I did miss it... By less then an inch.

Because of that inch, I walked away.

One inch.

Or course the gentlemen who hit me, denied any wrong doings... But the skid marks, damage on my car, and witnesses (who said he was speeding like a bat out of hell) made the cops issue him a "driving with undo care and attention" ticket and (they let me see the blanked out area on the report) which said Driver A (me) was driving straight on a straight stretch of highway when driver b (THE BIG TRUCK) hit her from behind.

The cops were amazed I got to walk away.

They were amazed by the inch.

God was watching over me tonight, because I'm here to write about it.


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INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT OF THE DAY
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
-Voltaire