Closest I felt was this:
We'd been drinking at Rafter Six, waiting for the other guys to arrive at my step brother's birthday. Got bored and decided to head down to the little bar to see what was going on and hopped into my step brother's jeep.
He has a prosthetic on his right leg so drives the opposite way, gas on the left, brake on the right. I get in the front passenger seat, someone else driving, and two guys in the back. We head out and start driving down a gravel road, almost side swipe a tree and...
Instead of hitting the brakes coming up to the corner, he hits the gas, we fly down an embankment and time stood still as a gigantic tree got closer and closer to the jeep. We hit it head on, none of us were wearing seatbelts and I shudder to think what would have happened without airbags. A scratch on my finger was the worst of it and a tender nose.
I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt now, no matter the distance.
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