[McFearson]

I was passenger in a car that got run off the road and conveniently smashed into a concrete overpass support pillar, traveling at a decent rate of speed. The car was totaled, the front end being entirely obliterated. Miraculously, I walked away from the crash, but my brother was trapped in the car, and when the paramedics arrived on the scene, they literally just gawked at the wreck and couldn't believe that anyone could have survived that. It took the firefighters (who got there first) telling them, and also pointing me out.

Just about everyone on the scene (police, firefighters, EMTs) said they couldn't believe we survived it.

Whenever I think of "near-death" type deals, this is (fortunately) the only thing I can think of in my life, because it's the only time I truly felt I could have died. Not exactly a story I like to tell, but thankfully I'm around to tell it.