The only damage was the destruction of my front license plate. Clearly, she had run the red light. I tell you, if I had not be aware of what was happening, I very well could have unknowingly pulled out and would have been smashed on the driver door side. Easily I could have died on impact. What is really interesting is that I had just become a Christian only about 6 months earlier, and for me, it was a wake-up call.
Life can be very short.
God is real , and He wants me to know that. Another memorable moment of driving in danger happened on a very isolated dirt road just outside of the Badlands on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in January 1998. I remember the moment so clearly. I was on a long, straight dirt road that was completely vacant of cars. I got worried, hit the breaks and started to fish tail, and before I knew it, I had spun around 450 degrees into a ditch on the left.