I was in a car crash today
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When i was a sophomore in high school, my mom was driving me to school on her way to work. About 3/4 mile down the road from our house was a stoplight. So we're approaching it and i remember that there were two large dump trucks stopped at the light to our left. My mom had the green light so we proceeded thru, going left.
As we're coming around to dump trucks a tractor-trailer comes barreling past the dump trucks and strikes us in the front driver-side corner spinning us almost 180degrees. He said that he had lost his brakes, but they sure seemed to work after he hit us, as he stopped almost immediately. His girlfriend was riding with him so there was some speculation that he was (ahem) distracted.
Messed up my mom's back pretty bad and i still have a 1" scar right below my bottom lip, but considering what could have happened, we considered ourselves very lucky.
The kicker is that i had had a dream about the accident (the exact same spot and being spun around ending up facing the exact same way) a week or two before, except in the dream we just got out of the car and walked home.