The Infamous Car Crash

My car crash that occurred 5 years ago will never be forgotten by anybody that hears it.   I was very tired one night driving to Long Beach State.  The exit off the 405 is called 7th street and it turns into a mini 2 lane bridge going over the Santa Ana river bed.  I was driving rather fast and probably thinking about how much I don’t want to spend my night in the library when all of a sudden I come out of my daze and I am about to hit a mini van in front of me.  I slammed on the brakes and made a sudden turn to the right to get out of the way.  Maybe on a freeway you might have enough space to correct a mistake like that but at 70 mph on a bridge it doesn’t work that way.  I ended up swerving back and forth out of control until my car headed straight off the road.  I hit a small curb and flew into the air into a huge willow tree.  I took off my seatbelt and tried to get out but I realized that I was suspended in the air over an embankment.  The more I moved in the car the more the tree branches started to give way.   Somehow, people actually saw my car go off the road and stopped to help hold my car from slipping down into the ditch.  The police were notified to help but there was another accident at the same time as mine on a freeway nearby and they couldn’t get to my car right away.  It took over 1 hour for the fire and police to come and help.  By the time they got to me my car was on its side and I was holding on to driver’s seat suspended in the air (I couldn’t get my seatbelt back on).  They told me that I had another 10 feet to drop down the embankment if the tree gave way so they secured my car first before they could get me out.  They kept asking me if I was on drugs or if I had been drinking?   I told them that I managed to do this all by myself!!  When I went back to the site during the daytime I had only another 10 feet up the road before I would have plunged 20 feet down into the Santa Ana river bed!  The best news is that since the tree caught me in mid-air I was not injured and my car had minimal damage.   My guardian angel was on full alert that night.   

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