Flash of Life

We all have been driving before. Usually, we talk about our lives, listen to music, and watch other drivers (probably laughing at their driving).

Once I was driving, like normal, up a canyon while talking to two friends going ~70 mph (sounds like a pretty normal day). Suddenly... a truck decided to try to pass the other cars by coming into my lane. I froze. I couldn't think, couldn't do anything. Time seemed to have slowed: I watched the towering truck getting closer and closer, straight towards me. My body wouldn't move. I was frozen. ... The truck now had a vehicle blocking them from reentering their lane. ... they are speeding up towards me... I hear someone yelling... nothing is decipherable. Death... hello...

At the last possible moment, a second more and I could have been no more, the truck swerves back into their lane: close enough that if we reached our hand out the window, we would have touched them.