Please, help me to thank God for saving me from untimely death and sparing my life.
In the early hours on May 6, 2018, I decided to travel from Abeokuta to Ajah, Lagos, on a business trip. I went to the popular Kuto Park to board a car. On getting there, the car I saw was already full and I was asked to wait for the next one.
When it was the turn of the next one, I rushed to the front of the car to take a seat because I was the first passenger to get into the car and eventually, as it is my habit, I wore the seat belt, unconsciously though. After about 25 minutes, the car got filled up and the driver meandered his way out of the congested motor park.
But just as we got to the front of the Governor’s Office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, our driver almost knocked down a commercial motorcyclist. I raised the alarm and reprimanded him for not concentrating while driving. Rather than accept his fault, the driver started to argue with me and was even shouting at the top of his voice. Other passengers in the car also supported me in calling the driver to order.
With all of us chiding him, the driver stopped shouting, and a few minutes after, he apologised to all the passengers, but said he knew what he was doing because he had been driving as a professional even before I was born. He assured the passengers that they had nothing to fear about his style of driving.
We then continued our journey, but shortly after, he said he wanted to buy fuel as we approached a filling station. After buying the fuel, he hit the road again and we continued the journey.
Soon after, I noticed that he was fiddling with his phone and was also looking up and down intermittently, without concentrating on his driving. Suddenly, our car swerved to one side, jumped over the culvert dividing the road, and somersaulted for about five times
Soon after, I noticed that he was fiddling with his phone and was also looking up and down intermittently, without concentrating on his driving. Suddenly, our car swerved to one side, jumped over the culvert dividing the road, and somersaulted for about five times.
By the time the car eventually stopped its macabre acrobatic display, all of us, the passengers, were still shouting “Jesus!” Suddenly, I found the lifeless body of the driver in front of me!
Then I quickly removed my seat belt and jumped out of the wrecked vehicle. I realised that if not for the seat belt and God’s intervention, I would have been dead, because of all the passengers in the vehicle, it was only myself and another man that did not sustain any injury. I give thanks to God for sparing my life.
Ashara Samuel Adekunle
Isale Igbehin, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
