Tuesday, November 27, 2007

WAY Too Close for Comfort!

I don't think we've ever experienced God's protection in such an obvious way as we did this past weekend. Our family was travelling back home from our Amelia vacation, on a major highway. We were in the far left lane, and a garbage truck was in the center lane to the right of us, ahead of us by maybe 50 feet. All of a sudden, the garbage truck blew a front left tire, and the driver started losing control. He began skidding into our lane and somehow flipped over in the process, right in front of our car! Roy was somehow (by God's grace) able to swerve around this huge truck as it was flipping over, with a huge plume of dust and debris flying everywhere. Visability was terrible, and there were also cars behind us and to our right to avoid as we swerved out of the way. We did get a glancing blow from the truck on the side of our car, which broke our headlight, scraped some paint off the side and knocked the driver's mirror out. But, other than that, our car was in good shape and completely driveable.
Miraculously, on this busy holiday travel weekend, this accident did not even scratch any other car, and the driver of the garbage truck, though taken by ambulance, seems like he'll be just fine. And, it was even good timing for another woman whose husband stopped at our accident scene and notified the paramedics that his wife was having severe chest pains. She got taken away by ambulance, too!
We know without a doubt that God had His hands in all of this, and we rejoice that he has spared us from what could have been an extremely devastating crash.


Aidan provided us some comic relief when he pointed out the sign posted at the back of the overturned truck. It reads, "How am I driving?"

1 Comments:

At 9:58 AM, Blogger Tracy in America said...

I was totally engaged in this story and praising God for your safety and then burst out laughing at the end. Good job Aidan!

 

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