Have You Ever Been Close To Dying

Have you ever been close to dying? I have. It was June 23, 2015. It was very hot that day in eastern Union county. I had spent the whole day at my grandmothers house cutting, splitting, and stacking wood. As you can imagine I was very tired and ready to be home so that I could crawl into bed and sleep away the stress of the day. I had my learners permit for about a month at the time and my father asked me to drive home, but I could barely lift my arms from all the work we had done that day so he decided he would drive instead. The moment we left my grandmothers I leaned my head against the truck window to hopefully fall asleep on the way home, but for some reason I couldn't seem to fall asleep even though I was extremely tired. Almost as if there was a reason I needed to be awake. The drive from my grandmothers back to my house was roughly an hour and a half and the whole time I was alarmingly alert. My father on the other hand kept complaining about not being able to stay awake and that I might need to drive home after all. I reassured him that I was in no condition to be driving so we continued on. It was roughly …show more content…
I noticed a tractor trailer from far off coming towards us in the oncoming lane. It was a drastically long straight away with very steep hills going up on either side. We are only about five miles from home at this time and we are very deep in the country so there are no street lights and visibility is limited. As the tractor trailer was getting nearer I noticed that he too was all over the road and it made me nervous seeing a very large truck coming my way and it was not very stable. All of a sudden as we’re right on top of each other the tractor trailer runs off the road and smashes into the steep hillside and begins to jackknife across the very thin two lane road…We are approximately traveling at sixty five miles per hour, too fast to be reacting to the situation at