Quite a fright

My parents just walked out with Kaitlyn to drive to an early Chinese New Year dinner with my aunt and her family. 5 minutes after they walked, around the time they would be driving out of the complex, I heard a VERY Loud BAM, something/someone had crashed, and crashed HARD!

I ran straight out, all I could think about was, please please please, not my dad's car...

Dad's car was about out of the driveway, and it was NOT my dad's car, thank goodness. My heart could finally stop trying race out of my mouth.

What happened was:

A car turned down Park Road way way too fast, lost control, crashed into the corner of our wall, lost its front bumper, swirled hard, accelerated while turning hard right, cut acrossed the busy intersection, across 4 lanes, and crashed hard, finally stopping on the other side of the road, into another house's wall.

So, the car took out the corner of our wall, loads of plants, 3 road signs along the way, and the wall at the house across the road.

The ambulance finally turned up now, 10 minutes later. Apparently the driver is fine, just in shock.

All it all, it had been very lucky:

* This is a very busy intersection, but there is only ONE car involved in the accident, no other car or pedestrians got hurt
* It was literally seconds before my dad's car drove out of the complex and right into the path of the crashing car! Seconds, making the difference between life and death, for half of my family! I am grateful, grateful for my mother's obsessiveness. She asked me to lock the front door, then, she came back to check that I had indeed locked the door. Those seconds, made a world of difference!

I think I had lost my appetite...

I am going to give Kaitlyn a HUGE hug when she gets home...

This is like the movie "Sliding Doors"... seconds, life could've been very different...

I am grateful, I still have my whole family, safe and well.