The Car Crash

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Story type: NDE
Location: oregon
Source: Form Submission

This incident happened in 1970 in Oregon. A bunch of my friends and I were going to a dance that was about 20 miles away. My best friend and her boyfriend at the time and I were in the front seat. He was driving rather fast because he was getting mad at my girlfriend for some forgotten reason. We had stopped to pick up one last friend, and for some reason I ended up sitting in the back seat and another guy sat up front.

Well, this all happened in the late fall, so all seven of us were bundled up with heavy coats and scarfs. We started off down the road and came to a right hand 15mph curve that had loose gravel on it. The driver is still mad at my best friend and driving too fast. He hit that gravel and started to slide sideways.

Somehow he overcorrected, slammed on the brakes and tried to jamb the gears into reverse. As all of this is happening, I'm looking out the side window. I can see the trees going by. I can feel the car going out of control and I know that it's going to roll so I start to go into a fetal position with my hand on my head. I remember at this point that i start to have flashes of things that happened in my life going backwards. Then i'm floating towards this very bright white light and i know this is where people go when they die. I'm almost there to the source of the light when I hear voices say in a very calm and peaceful way that they aren't ready for me to come yet, I must go back.

The next thing i know I'm sitting on the side of the road, next to the car that has rolled 4 and a half times and smashed to smithereens. Somehow we all made it out of the crash alive. Had we rolled the opposite direction we would have gone down a 200 foot gourge. After having this expierence, I cherish life, but I'm not afraid to die either.