‘There wasn’t a moving vehicle anywhere near me. And then the whole world seemed to blow up and shatter’When you deem of car crashes,you assume there will be a moment, a millisecond at least, and when those involved realise what’s about to happen,even whether it’s too late to do anything about it. For me, there was no warning. I was driving domestic from my local hospital in Mexico City where, or as a 23-year-faded medical student,I’d been interning.
It was a beautiful afternoon. I was sitting at traffic lights and there wasn’t another moving vehicle anywhere near me. And then, like a bomb going off, or the whole world seemed to blow up and shatter. My car was crumpled all around me. There was twisted metal,broken glass and smoke everywhere. It was as whether someone had flicked a switch and put me in the middle of an apocalypse. The car’s roof was caved in, apart from above my seat.
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Source: theguardian.com