Miracles.
Last night, my baby sister and two of her friends were making a 2.5 hour drive down from the mountains when it started raining, and they hydroplaned. They spun around on the interstate and then the car rolled over TEN times. Lives have been lost from so much less.
Several witnesses stopped and said they were surprised that the kids were up and walking; the accident looked so deadly. One man said he thought he was going to be stopping to try to resuscitate severely battered victims.
Mary said that she didn’t move at ALL the entire time because the seatbelt held her in so securely. She was in the seat behind the driver.
The friend who was driving the car was okay even though the driver air bag didn’t come out for him. The passenger air bag did deploy, and Taylor, who was in the front seat, is in pain but mostly okay.
They were taken to the hospital and checked for internal injuries. The tests came out normal.
The car looks surprisingly good for having rolled ten times. It landed upright and everyone was able to open the doors and get out.
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This is my car… my Honda Civic that we bought specifically for safety reasons. Look how well it protected its passengers! I’m so proud. So grateful. Mary and I switched cars for the day (just in case something happened…), and if she would have gotten into this accident in her convertible-top VW bug, the outcome may have been very different.
I just don’t know how they didn’t get hit by anyone else when they spun out.
Things like this are so weird when the people involved survive. It almost sounds cheesy and trite to recount the details and say “I can’t believe they survived.” But in this case, I just can’t help thinking how miraculous it is.
God had his hand on these beautiful ones. He gives and takes away, but in this case, he decided that he wanted them to stay with us. Not sure why they stayed and others havent, but I can only believe that he does all in love. All in good purpose.
