Posted by Used-to-be-Iowa-Dave on September 26, 2012 at 23:29:38 from (97.125.228.63):
14 yr old daughter has been driving on a school permit since last oct. w/out a problem...till yesterday. A quarter mile from home on her way to school, met a car hogging the middle of the gravel road. She slowed and moved right. Coming back to the left she fishtailed and took the ditch to the left. Hit an eight inch tree, bowed it down enough to drive up it about ten feet before tumbling down the ditch sideways 3.5 times. Came to a rest upside down, hanging from her seatbelt, top crushed down pretty good. Took her fifteen minutes to get out a rear window. Someone, possibly the driver that met her, called 911. Multiple cars went by while she was trapped and honking the horn, nobody stopped to give aid. Not a scratch on her. Walked her through Army risk avoidance steps, she came to the right conclusion that she'll drive for the other guy next time, respect and understand what Dad means when he says, "gravel will bite you",and SLOW DOWN now means 5-10, not 20-30. We kept her at home a couple hours to make sure adrenalin wasn't hiding an injury, then she demanded to go to school so she could play varsity volleyball last night. Oh, to be young again. I told my wife I was stopping at the tow yard on the way to work that afternoon, she told me not to come home without the charm pinned to the driver's visor. Looking at the wreck alone I let myself get upset, then reached through what remained of the driver's side window and felt for the charm I'd never seen. It was an Angel. My wife had bought one for our oldest daughter when she started driving two years ago, and another last October. The words on the charm? "NEVER DRIVE FASTER THAN YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL CAN FLY".
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