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1:06And just left there and was headed home. Stopped at McDonald's to grab some french fries. And I pulled out of there and I had a 71 charger that I had beautifully painted and had it the way I wanted it. And I pulled out of the McDonald's. It was just a 4-11 o'clock. And so it was dark. And I was in a relatively rural area that's built up now, but at the time it was pretty dark. And so it weren't really street lights in the area. I turned left on highway, which is 55 miles an hour. And about the time I hit third year, which is probably 50 miles an hour, something like that. I wasn't driving hard or anything like that, but I was coming up to speed. I remember just seeing a flash of something cross my left headlight. And it was, I knew it was right up on me. And I knew there was nothing I could do except try to turn the car into it and go for the

2:10brakes. I tried to put the heaviest mass part of the car into whatever this thing was because I didn't know what it was. It didn't look like another vehicle. It looked smaller, but it was just something that was just coming at me at an incredible speed. As I found out later, a couple of days later, it was a flatbed car trailer that had been pulled by a pickup truck. And the opposite direction on the other side of the median, the trailer had come loose from the truck and gone across the median, bouncing through the grass and dirt and such. And it basically slammed in my left headlight. And the tongue of the trailer, which was rather extended, it was actually rather long for a single car trailer, went down the, not the engine off the mounts and came down the left side of the motor.

3:10And went underneath the steering column, just, Cully took out the firewall there and came diagonally through. And it caught me and then right knee, pretty much right at the knee, continued in between the two seats and then bounced back out. I didn't see any of this happen because it was just so fast. That's what happened and then everything came to a rest. So what I experienced was I remember both hands, I guess one hand on the wheel, one hand on the shifter because I was going through the gears. I remember seeing this flash and just instinctively, immediately turning into it and going for the brake pedal. And then at that point, I remember things going in very slow motion. I remember the car comes slowing down. I don't remember an actual, you know, like a dynamic feeling on my body. But I remember on one hand, I remember on one setting, I remember the car slowly going

4:17to the left as I turned into it. And I remember my cousin was in the front seat with me. He wasn't wearing the seat belt. I was wearing a lap belt. Now, I remember we both went forward slowly. He came across toward me in front of me. And as best I can tell, I kind of lean, came up against his back and I ended up with a like 12 stitches in my forehead. So I think I banged the back of his head at some point. And then slowly, we came back into our positions and the car came to rest. But I felt during this at the time of this slow motion was about halfway through this leaning forward, even though I had just a lap belt on. Imagine a really big guy, muscular guy with big arms, giving you a bare hug from behind

5:19in slow motion. And it was a very comforting kind of feeling. It wasn't painful at all. It was just kind of a snug feeling around my chest, around my ribs to the sides. I didn't feel anything in the back. And then about the time the car came to a rest, I remember this sensation just fading away. At the very same time that this was happening, and this is why I contacted you, is I felt like my experience was quite different than what I've read in the past. Typically somebody has a near death experience. They come out of their body. They're no longer in their body. They're usually above it as a third party viewer. In my case, I was experiencing it the entire time. However, at the exact same time I was watching myself from the back seat.

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7:48This image or this sensation or this existence appeared about the time everything went to slow motion. It lasted for the same entirety, but I never felt any dynamic forces on me as you would like somebody sitting in a back seat getting tossed around. I felt very comfortable. I did not feel the same hug around my chest. It was two totally different experiences that happened at the same time. I remember watching the two bodies go forward and then slowly return and then boom, I was back in my body and that was all over with. I remember sitting there knowing that I'd hit something, had no idea what it was. I totally recalled the slow motion effect.

8:49Totally recalled the back seat thing, but that was really weird. I talked to my cousin, make sure he was okay. He was treated and released at the hospital that night, but as he was kind of turned, he ended up with some pretty serious laceration so it crosses back. He was kind of stunned and wanting to get out of the car and just go walk around and I'm putting you just sit. Then, I didn't even know I was injured at that point. Once I finished the first initial, a little bit of chat with him and had dust in my mouth, I'd spit that out a little bit. Notice the windshield was cracked, but it's still intact and my window was open. I mean, I was up all the way and intact. Then I happened to look down and I've been wearing white pants and they were just ripped right at the knee and I could see just a couple inches of my femur sticking out with the

9:52jagged end. It was just enough light to be able to make that out. It was dark enough that there was no color or anything, but I could see a bone exposed. I remember reaching down just to grab my eye. There was no feeling of pain or anything. It was a very... Once I saw it, there was just this kind of numb feeling like this should hurt, but right now it's just all very numb. I just kind of grabbed my leg just to kind of... I don't know, just instinctive just to hold it. When I did, I realized how serious this was because when I couldn't find my leg, it wasn't visible at the moment, but my fingers went right up through the open wound on the bottom, right up into pieces of hard stuff, soft stuff and realized that was in bad shape at that point. It wasn't until the medics got there that I realized that my leg was sitting next to

10:52me in between the seats and it was still attached by two arteries, a small bundle of nerves and a piece of skin about two centimeters wide. I don't remember seeing this because it was dark and then when the medics got there, I had a neck brace and all that. This was in the medical report. Once the car came to a stop and about the time I realized I was injured, like other cousin his brother had been driving in front of me and he saw the trailer come across and he saw the impact behind him so he pulled over immediately. He ran up, I'm actually, my window was down. He ran up to the car and just shook his head and just, I guess, kind of freaked. It startled him what he saw and he ran off and at a going home to tell his parents who lived nearby. Behind me was another vehicle, was a friend of mine who was also at the skating rink and

11:56we also were in the NASA, NASA, the French school together. We knew each other quite well. He walked up kind of cautiously and noticed that my head was open. Wasn't bleeding but it was open. So he knew I was injured to some extent and he just said, are you okay? I just kind of nodded and he even spoke and he said, is it bad and I nodded as well? So he got the phone number, so my parents can call them and things seemed like they were going pretty fast. Seemed like just moments for the first medic showed up. They had a station right down the street but I'm sure it took two or three minutes but they seemed like they were right away and started treating me and pick a helicopter, fly and ended up in a Norfolk trauma center.

12:57And 15 days later I was released to go home. The only thing I really heard later, I went back to the fire department a couple weeks later I forgot the hospital and just said, hey thanks for taking care of me. It was pretty bad I know. And there was a lady there who said, you know why we flew you to Norfolk which was normally about a 35, 40 minute drive but it was a seven minute flight. She said, you know why we flew you and I said, well I don't know. She said because we expected you to die. And Norfolk was the only place in the area that would have the capability to try to revive me or bring me back or whatever. But I do remember sitting in, I guess while I was waiting for the medics to show up, I remember thinking or being convinced that I was going to die because I was bleeding so much. I remember being at ease with it. There was no fear.

13:57I just knew it. I was wrong obviously but I knew it. And I remember laying my head against the back of the seat and just relaxing and just being thankful of having great parents and family and opportunities and I've had a good life at this point and I was just ready to go. I think at the age of 21 I hadn't given a whole lot of thought because I was still invincible. The young man, you know, nothing can take me down, right? But you know, asking me now if I'm okay with dying in the next 20 minutes, no, I'm not. Unless fearful of dying, I'm more fearful in how I'm going to die, you know, the method, you know, I'd much rather die under, you know, you know, anesthesia or something is that I guess the most cowardly way to go. But the big fear in being older and dying is I still have unfinished business.

14:58You know, I've got loved ones, I've got grandchildren now. I got things I need to do. I got fun things I still want to do. Of course, one would think that, you know, on one hand, supposedly if there is a heaven and you go there, then all these fun things are not going to matter because you can be what you want. But once I'm gone, because I have been faced with death with the feeling that I was convinced I was dying at night, it was a real cold.