I was involved in a serious car accident 23years ago.
It happened too fast to get scared. At the point when I realised that I had lost complete control of the car and there was nothing I could do, something happened. I was told in my head (in my own voice) that “it will be ok”. Amazing sense of calm descended and I felt as if my body was protected from serious impact damage by some kind of force-field.
After a few seconds of chaos outside my “egg”, the lorry behind me had stopped clear of my Mother’s car, and all the bricks from a wall demolished in the incident had finished falling into a Marina packed full of fibre-glass racing yachts, damaging them impressively.
My mothers car was a total write-off. I got out the car (now on its side) through where the windshield used to be and discovered that the only real damage I had sustained was to my insurance premium. Then of course there was the problem about what to tell Mum.
Another irony: this was the first day we were legally compelled to wear seatbelts, had I not been I would have been in trouble. Had the wall failed in its task, and I had been dumped in the marina the seatbelts would probably have killed me.
The whole thing was a pivot point in my life.
I have been saved in another car situation later, when my foot suddenly went on the brake hard before I asked it to, mainly because I had missed some stop lights.
The above don’t “defy” my belief, but at the time it certainly challenged them.
Today – this is not strange to me at all
Thanks for this thread.
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