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April 01, 2006
Ride of a Lifetime
I had just passed a major collision (both cars were completely totalled) which slowed down rush hour traffic on rain-slicked Highway 92W to a crawl when it happened.
I was driving up a straight stretch of the highway when my car inexplicably spun out of control. I spun out from one end of the highway to the other and back again before flying backwards for about 100 to 200 feet along a hill on the side of the highway! I ran over some sign which thankfully gave way - if it was solidly planted in the ground, it would have been game over for me... I finally came to a stop with my car at about a 60 degree angle to the highway facing backwards.
My first thought after I stopped: "Thank God I'm alive!!!"
While checking to make sure that I hadn't lost any limbs or anything, some guys who stopped came up to check if I was OK. They both remarked: "Yeah, it was the craziest thing! I was behind you... you were going straight when your car just started spinning all over the place!"
Not only had I survived the accident without a scratch, but after the guys helped push my car off the hill, we noticed the second "miracle:" my car was relatively unharmed! I had a flat tire and some alignment problems, but considering the speed and impact I made with the hill, it could have been so much worse... especially in light of the major crash just a few hundred feet behind us (well... in front of me, in this case)!
I'm not sure what caused the accident, but I give all praise and thanks to God for protecting me! If the impact had been a little harder, I could have been seriously injured... my car was close to flipping over on the hill... if it wasn't for the other accident earlier, my spin-out would definitely have hit other cars and caused a major accident!
Father God, you are so good to me!
...Oh, and not that I'd want to go through the experience again, but I gotta admit... that whole driving experience was really freaking sweet! I tried to contain my grin while the guys were checking on me... I am such an adrenaline junkie, haha.
Posted by stevelee at April 1, 2006 04:50 PM
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Wow, thank goodness you came out okay!
Posted by: mare at April 3, 2006 01:15 PM
given that your post was dated april 1st, i half expected you to say april's fool... but mister.lee, i'm glad u're okay. whew... too soon to lose u buddy.
Posted by: milz at April 3, 2006 11:07 PM
thanks, Kuya Steve. =)
just out of curiousity (as usual) =P:
is there a meaning behind your blog title -"the gray area"?
Posted by: heidi at April 26, 2006 11:17 PM
Hehe... yeah, back when I started my blog a few years ago (and going through more drama in my life ;)), my entries were focused more on my introspection and the gray areas that I wrestled with... if that makes sense?
Posted by: steve at April 30, 2006 04:20 PM
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