A Life-Changing Moment: A Car Accident

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Life Changing Moment: A Car Accident

Introduction

During a transitional period in life, whenever I come across some incidence it always helps to look back on the times, which have made the prevalent influence on me, resulted in a stirring in my life. It helps me in revisiting those stances and why and how those certain situations affect on me. 

Discussion

I was only sixteen years old, and it was May 20, 2008. I have a close friend, Ronaldo. He has invited me for a drive to Golden Corral with him. He also asked two of his friends named Jesse and Cody to come with us. After eating dinner, we all went for a long drive around Springfield before going back to the Ronaldo's residence. Suddenly, in a while, Jesse told us that she has to go back within 5 minutes; however, her house was quite away from Ronaldo house, about fifteen minutes drive. Thus, Ronaldo offers to drop her and inform us that he will drop her there on time.

Jacob was driving irresponsibly and was a passionate, but crazy driver, and he was driving very fast. When I last looked at the speedometer, the speed was about 105 mph. I asked Ronaldo to slow down the car's speed as we were driving through some sharp corner, then he decelerate the speed of a car. However, still he was driving recklessly.

The thing that I can never forget was the driving of Ronaldo as we were going to the left and to the right in the centre of the road. Since, I stared to my right and there was the asphalt road. All of us after that twisted the other side, along with the noise that came from the car back as it dragged through the ditch. After that, there was a thunderous hit and all went hushed. The car and all of us were spinning in the air, and I got faint. I had felt that my toss flops sliding off and on; thus, I pushed my legs towards the ground as possible as I could. Subsequently, they could not fall off. On the ceiling, my head smacked. I believe it banged me out as at the time, and when I opened my eyes we all were on the left side of the road. All I would glimpse was the windshield wiper and a wooden fence sticking vertically in the air.

At this point, I was so confuses, and was not sure if it really did occur or I was dreaming. The car was still not stopped, and there was resonance similar to the accelerator was wedged to the ground; however, we were in a same state. When I glanced to my left and discover an empty seat of driver, I was astonished with the fact that no one was there. I gazed to my right side to view Ronaldo by opening a car door. He unbelievably got me out ...