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A Frightening Event in My Life

THE MOST FRIGHTENING EVENT IN MY LIFE

Three years ago, I was driv*****g home from the first social affair with co- workers from my new job. It was late, but I always enjoyed driving late at night when the roads are almost empty. As the trees zipped past ***** windows, I was still contemplating the evening's events and trying not to obsess about the about ***** cordial way my boss had greeted me ***** I might have expected him to be a little friendlier, under the circumst*****nces. Now, I underst***** his personality much better, but at the time I ***** worried that he didn't like me too much.

During the day, two-***** roads such as ***** one I was on at the time ***** made me very nervous, because ***** two opposite directi*****s of traffic are separated by *****hing more than yellow lines painted on the asphalt. I re*****mber thinking about ***** very thing when headlights first appe*****d about a qu*****rter ***** a mile away coming toward me. ***** he approac*****d, I was absolutely horrified to see that he was actually in my lane, headed ***** the wrong direction. *****t ***** one of my worst fears actually coming true. It happened so fast that I had no ti***** to do any***** at all except take ***** foot off the accelerator and scream the single word, "No!" before the impact.

*****, I remember nothing of the actual collision itself, but they tell me that is *****ten the case ***** people who have concussions. My next *****mory was being told ***** paramedics not to move my head while they got me out of the car. As angry as I ***** about the o*****r driver's irresponsibility, I have to admit that I was also somewhat shocked by how roughly he ***** treated ***** ***** of the police officers who responded to the scene. Despite the fact that the other driver ***** very conspicuous injuries, he was handcuffed immediately after being removed from the remains of his car. ***** just seemed to me ***** it would have been ***** appropriate to treat him as a patient at the time, ra*****r than as a criminal. He had a deep g*****h in his forehead and I heard one of the paramedics said something about the obsolete seatbelts in thirty-five year-old classic" cars, which he said have only a lap belt and no shoulder strap. W*****n they explained to me that he ***** ***** ***** arrested for driving under the influence a few weeks earlier, I *****s*****od why they treated him somewhat different from me at the ti*****.

I am very thankful to all of ***** pr*****essional heroes who rescued me from the accident. Likewise, I have a ***** greater respect for ***** work that these people do, because ***** are so good at it. They could *****t ***** done a more thorough *****, from the ti***** they first arrived at the scene and began taking apart my car ***** the