Write about the moment that changed your life
People live thousands of thousands moments in their lives. Some moments fall into oblivion; some become the most cherish memories. Some can change their lives into a new chapter, and last Saturday afternoon when I saw a car crash was the one. I realized how important we should follow the traffic law, and keep our minds clam and clear when we are in a collision.
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon with the shinning blue sky, and slight breezes. At 10:30 am, I went out of my yoga class, which is in downtown St. Petersburg. Usually, I would stay inside a classroom to chitchat with my lovely teacher if my boyfriend was not there to pick my up; however, it was such a peaceful scene outside, so I stayed out and enjoyed my day. I sat on a yoga-style-timber bench in front of the building and wallowed in a halcyon day without any premonitions. In front of me was a small old claret brick road. There were many restaurants and souvenir stores on the other side of the road. The stinking, fresh smell from restaurants made me starved. Some waiters was setting up a few solid glass tables outside of the restaurant with red polka pot table covers and sunflowers. About twenty to thirty feet from my left, the brick road crossed a small street without light signals but had four-way stop signs.
It was about ten minutes since I have setting there. It was a shinning, lazy day, and everything seemed so much nonchalant, such as the old White lady in a white SUV on the brick road in front of me. She looked so relax and careless. The white car ran slowly ahead a stop sign. It kept the same speech when it hit a white line. "Wait! Does not she stop?" My inner subconscious jumped into the highest rate of the Richter scale. The car was still moving, and slowly, it passed a white line. As a conditional reflex, I scanned the front, left and right side of the street. Unpredictably, my eye was caught by a dark-moss-green Chevrolet SUV on a small street from the left side of the white SUV. "Please stop at the stop sign and give a poor old lady a way", I frightened. Unfortunately, the second car kept moving forward a line. I stared at the driver in the Chevrolet and realized what a driver was doing. The Latino lady in the second SUV was on her phone. "How worse this one going to be", I screamed in silent.
Time was stop, and my blood was frozen in my vines. I was watching a slow motion show. In a second, two SUV passed a white line and forwarded ahead to an intersection. The Latino lady totally concentrated on her infraction while an old White lady put her mind somewhere else except driving. "Watch out!" I heard somebody yielded but I did not care or check who screamed. My mind was full with fright and my eye glued on a collision. Although it did not bother me, that warning affected two nonchalant drivers. The old White lady realized her dangerous situation but she was too panicky to react. She took her hands off a steering wheel and covered her face. In the other car, the Latino lady tried to slam on the brake of her big car, but it was too late. After the loud, harsh, squeaking cacophony, the white SUV ploughed into the green car. The front of two cars compacted into one mangled mess. A second later, a kind of liquid leaked out from the front of the white car. I could smell smoke, and an oily taste hung into my noise.
After that, all was silent for a while, and then people from the restaurant and on the street ran to two cars. They helped two poor ladies got out of cars, called police, and ambulances. Luckily, no fatality was injured in the car crash.
Everything just happened in ten minutes, but personally, it was an action movie in my mind. I saw how is dangerous if people do not focus on their driving. Since that day, I have reminded myself that I should follow the traffic law when I am in a car, because it is not only for my safe but also for everybody's who is on the street. Besides that, if I am involved into car cash, I should keep my mind calm and clear so that I can react a smart way.
