March 1st- The Miracle of a Few Seconds

March 1, 2014

I have never felt so lucky in my life. This morning I was headed to Idaho Falls to open the store at my other job. I woke up to just a little snow. On my way to work however, the visibility was pretty bad. I could only see about 10 feet in front of me so I was cautious but not cautious enough.

While pondering the meaning of life out of the fog I see a big black Sedan flip off the road into the middle divider. The car nearly missed me doing three or four flips on the road. I slowed down as well as I could only to see 5 cars literally piled on top of one another in what can only be described as a heap of crushed metal and debris.

I slid to a stop nearly missing the wreckage and tried to gain my composure. While sitting there in shock at what I was staring at a car trying to stop swerved into my passenger side door and hit me knocking my mirror off. I didn't feel much. It felt like I was back at an amusement park playing with the bumper cars and someone intentionally ran into me. I saw the car that had just hit me over correct than book it out of there. I pulled to the side of the road and got out of my car to asses the damage when I heard screaming. I looked over into the pile of metal and realized there had been people in there.

I ran over and found a woman trapped in her car being choked by her seatbelt hanging upside down. Her head was bleeding and her face was turning purple. Thinking on my toes I told her to look the other way. As she obliged, I took my heel and drove it into the window. I was so grateful that I wore my high heeled boots today. The window shattered and I gave all my strength to lift her up enough to take her seatbelt off and get her out of the car. By the time I was pulling her out of the car her body went limp and people started coming over helping the others in the other cars.

She wasn't breathing and her face was purple. I covered her in my coat and started performing CPR. After a couple of turns she started breathing again and I turned her to her side. The ambulance came and got her into a stretcher and said she would be fine.

They found the other bodies in the other cars and they were fine as well. After a brief check of how I was doing, they sent me on my way and closed the highway. As I headed to work I was so shaken. I couldn't bring myself to go anything above 60 miles an hour. When I got to work I realized that I hadn't even looked at the damage done to my car. The passenger side door is jammed in and the mirror is off but it could have been much worse.

I can't believe how lucky I am. Had I been seconds earlier, I could have been seriously injured if not worse. We are truly taken care of every minute of everyday. What a miracle!