Speaker 1: Saved by something. In December nineteen sixty seven, two sisters
took their children Christmas shopping in Colorado City. On the
way home, all was quiet in the car, as a
youngster slept in the back seat and the women happily
reflected upon their purchases they had made. The group had
been traveling in companionable silence for several minutes when the
woman who was driving fell her Her sister tap her
on the shoulder. Pull over here and stop immediately, she said.
The woman pulled the car over to the side of
the road at the bottom of an extremely steep hill,
then turned to ask her sister why she had wanted
to stop. Before she could form the question, however, she
saw that her sister was staring straight ahead, her face
frozen in fear. The woman turned her attention back to
the road and immediately saw the problem. A huge truck
and trailer unit was sliding sideways down the hill. The
length of the truck covered both lanes of the highway,
and it narrowly missed crushing the small car as it went.
S getting past a short distance beyond, the massive vehicle
veered off the road, hit an embankment and came to
a sudden stop. The driver, unharmed, jumped out of the
cab and ran over to check on the women. He
was immensely relieved when he saw that their car had
not been so much as scratched. Lucky you weren't coming
up that hill, he said. The rig was out of
control right from the top. It had been lucky. Indeed.
The two women sat quietly for a moment, gathering their wits. Finally,
the driver said to her sister, I don't know why
you want it to stop, but it sure saved our lives.
His sister stared back and disbelieve I didn't want to stop,
she said. I was about to ask you why you
wanted to stop, but you tapped me on the shoulder.
The sister shook her head. The two stared at each
other in wonder. The woman later wrote, it could have
been one of the children, for they slept through the
whole terrifying experience. But whoever or whatever touched me that
day saved our lives.