Brad Yeung shared this amazing story a little while back. It still gives me goose bumps:
Yesterday in mid-morning, while returning home after visiting their younger sister Winnie in Las Vegas, my wife Karen and her older sister Colleen experienced brake failure while going downhill. Colleen tried pumping the brakes and changing gears (it's an automatic) but to no avail. Although this whole incident lasted only a few minutes, at the time it seemed to stretch for miles and miles with no end in sight except for the prospect of a really bad crash.
With an increasing speed (last noticed at 110 mph) and even driving on the shoulder to avoid hitting other cars, they became desperate. Discussions of how to crash the car to maximize their chances of survival were punctuated with several cries of "God help us!" Karen said to herself that the next time she would see me would be from a hospital bed. Then a thought flashed in her head about a discussion I once had with her about using the parking brake in an emergency. Colleen pulled on it and the car started to slow down and gradually stopped. God had answered their prayer! There were no injuries - just a lot of rattled nerves.
They were eventually towed to the near-by city of Victorville where the Honda dealer replaced the master brake cylinder, and the remainder of their trip went without incident.
20 minutes ago I was driving in my parents new car. Trying to show it off to my two bestfriends in the car I speed up us laughing and feeling fearless hit 130 no problem. Not seeing the sharp turn ahead I hit the ice patch and we slid across 3 lanes of traffic. I had one hand on the wheel towards the bottom with little grip on the wheel. Having no control god moved the wheel back to normal and the car was fine. With all of us startled I hit the breaks slowing us back down to 74 mph passing a cop car. Being out past cerfew with 1 to many ppl in the car nearly killing my bestfriends I knew god was with me. I slowed down more and the cop turned the other way. god saved me today and I will never be the same. You hear these stories and never say theyll happen to you, but mine happened today and I will never let it have a second chance at trying to break what ive started in my life as of this very second. Be wise with your life you dont know when the timer stops...
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