Miracle saves woman in accident.

[Bikewer]

Or so she claims....

We had a big messy accident here Thursday, a semi-trailer rig rammed into a knot of vehicles that were stopping on the highway. After rear-ending a couple of cars, the truck went across the median, struck an overpass, and then the cab (now separated from the trailer) went head-on into an oncoming car.

The "miracle" in question occurred when a 60-pound chunk of concrete knocked off the overpass went through the windshield of yet another vehicle, striking the female passenger on the left side of her chest. She suffered broken ribs, bruises and contusions.

According to her, the pain ceased "as soon as she started praying". In her opinion, "only a miracle could have saved me." (emergency personel on the scene said the windshield absorbed much of the force of the chunk of concrete)
While it's all very well for this woman to think she was singled out for a miraculous rescue, you have to wonder about the 71-year old victim who was killed by the head-on collision with the tractor. Only one miracle per accident?

[Aepervius]

... Is that if you stop breathing or breath really slowly the pain ebb a bit (I am telling from experience :)). It could very well be that because of her praying, she calmed a it and/or her breathing was slowlier. Et Voila ! miracle explained !

[Meffy]

Erm. She was miraculously "saved" from bruises, scraped skin, and some broken ribs? PRAISE the paramedics and shout hallelujah! Bactine is my shepherd; I shall not ouch.

[Stellafane]

When I was 17 or so I was the passenger in a near-fatal accident. I was in the back seat of a van speeding down a country road. The driver lost control and the van skidded, then flipped over on its side. It slid off the road and slammed into a tree roof-first. The tree hit exactly where I was sitting. The roof was actually pressing down into the seat after the accident. If I had remained in my seat throughout the accident, I would have been identifiable only through my dental records -- and even then it might have been difficult.

The reason I didn't remain in my seat was that just before we hit, a voice yelled out "jump in the back!" So I jumped into the van's cargo compartment, and when we struck the tree I got off relatively lightly with a concussion and fractured shoulder blade.

After we all recovered, we discussed the incident. The driver and other passengers all agreed on the details of what happened, with one exception: No one remembered anyone telling me to jump into the back. Looking back on it, I can't recall who it was either -- it was just a voice. Whatever it was, it saved my life.

So where did the voice come from? God? My own head? Someone who forgot about it afterward in the excitement and panic of the moment? Who knows? I'm comfortable accepting the fact that I'll probably never know, and that the likeliest explanation is that it was my own panicked thoughts, magnified to audibility by the intensity of the moment. But I'm sure others would accept no other explanation than divine intervention.

[Gravy]

I wonder, if she were in a serious accident that no one else witnessed and she had a cell phone handy, would she await divine intervention, or would she call the miracle workers on the rescue squad?

[NobbyNobbs]

I think a true miracle would have been if the chunk of concrete stopped and hovered 10 feet above the car, giving the occupants time to get out unharmed.

What's described here, I would consider merely "lucky".