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On my way home today, I was waiting behind a stop sign to go over the bridge and get onto the freeway and had a pretty-much-near-death experience.

There was one car in front of me that had just gone, and I pulled up to the stop sign and stopped. As I glanced to the right and left before getting ready to go, something caught my eye in my rear view mirror. I think it stood out because it was large and red, but I quickly realized that there was something wrong with the huge semi truck approaching from behind: its speed.

It was coming so fast that I had to floor it to avoid getting rear ended (run over, actually), and as I looked back I could see the cab bouncing up and down as it tried to slam on its breaks way too late. It veered off diagonally while other cars scrambled to avoid it as well, and it nearly jacknifed as it skidded up very close to the edge of the hill leading up to the bridge.

I’m not sure what the deal was with the driver, if he was somehow temporarily incapacitated or if it was some kind of equipment failure, but I am sure that if I hadn’t happened to see it coming when I did, my car would have been toast, because I was directly in its path and it couldn’t have gone around me. I can only imagine that God was looking out for me on that one.