Blogger's Diary-My first brush with death

This is real..This happened and I want to share it with you all...The pictures below...are real too

I hadn't felt such pain before. No, this wasn't pain. This feeling was indescribable. Yes I had heard about it before. I had read about it and even watched it on TV. Didn't I laugh on several occasions? The sound of screeching tyres, the way the cinematographer moved his camera and down to give an unsuccessful illusion of a car which had lost control. While these scenes managed to elicit bouts of uncontrollable laughter from me, there was nothing comic about this moment. I was in involved in accident and I was dying.

Thirty minutes earlier, I was an excited girl heading for a night out with friends. The fact that it was 10pm and we lived on the mainland while our destination was on the island did nothing to hasten us. We had a car and I took the wheel with my pals Queen and Christy

"Mehn we are going to be the hottest chicks at that party " a very vibrant and plump Queen broke our 5 minutes silence.
"Of course we are and classy too" Christy who sat behind fiddling with her makeup purse chipped in"

. I was quiet. The fact was, I was very happy to have had this opportunity to step out of the house, take my mind away from my shocking break-up with a man I called my boyfriend. Some how, his ex decided it was time to get back in the picture and I didn't have the patience to slug it out with her. My father raised me better than that. That didn't take away the fact that I was heartbroken and any opportunity to get my mind off it was welcome.

"It going to be alright " Christy who was now done with her make-up said while placing a reassuring hand on my shoulder" I smiled. She had always been there for me. My thoughts were intercepted by the sight of a flashlight
. "Police ahead, Police I yelled " So what? Queen retorted obviously appalled by my unnecessary panic .
"I'm not putting on a seat belt " Kindly help me fit it in.Hurry" I said with a sense of desperation .."and wear yours too" I added.

She did this rather swiftly and to our relief, they didn't flag us down and we found ourselves on the express , riding on third mainland bridge.

'"This is a perfect time for you to drive on this bridge .It's 10:45 PM and the road is free.Want to try it out" I told Christy who had a phobia for driving on bridges. "Naaah I'll pass up on that offer " She said with a wave of dismissal " "Play some music jare " Queen  intercepted and I slotted in a Rihanna cd and we bumped to it.

We were half way into the third mainland bridge when we saw it. A car was in our way and just as I pondered if it was in motion or parked, a man came down from the driver side and then it hit me .

"Omg this car isn't moving .I"m going to run into it " I screamed " What" my friends shouted in unison and at that split second I realized I had no option being on 90kilometres per hour, I just had to swerve and I did.......And that was the last sane moment I recall.

I was no longer in control of the car, we were spinning and I realised we were going over bridge into the Lagoon . I saw the large expanse of water and it hit me

 "I can't swim " I was going to die beneath the sea and no one would ever find out. We were in the air and I saw it. I think my friends saw it too. We were heading over the bridge, going down. I closed my eyes and tried to think, but I was blank. I was floating. Didn't they say people screamed during accidents like this? Didn't they say people shout and watch their lives flash before them? Why we're my friends quiet? Why was there no chaos? I couldn't even pray...So those accident scenes in Nollywood movies were a far cry from reality?

 How long would it take for us to plunge into the sea. It was taking forever. Then I heard it " Swoooooooooosssssh.. we had landed. The impact was deadly. I felt the air bag explode and hit my chest. I felt blood trickle down my chin. And I waited, resigned to fate. I waited for the water to suck us in.There was no point fighting. But just one last try won't hurt. I attempted to open the doors but we were jammed....

At least that part in the movies are true. The doors get jammed during an accident. We're we still floating? It was taking forever for us to sink..Then I thought I saw it. Lights. Oh there is really another world under water. Then I heard a loud sound. What could that be? Looks like my door was being forced open. I heard the bangs, the clangs, and the sound of glass shatter.Someone was pulling me out.

 This must be the angels. Death isn't that painful.This must be heaven because I feel no pain.But wait!! Did I even pray?God I didn't even pray...

Open your eyes, can you hear me. "Ki na ji na"? ( do you hear me) Wait ! Hausa in heaven too. Great. I forced myself to open my eyes.And I heard " Thank God. She's awake . Lie still.

 I saw many faces hovering over me. I faintly scanned my surroundings and I saw my friends, lying down.. They were moving but there was blood everywhere.

I heard a voice say" 

I saw them going over the water. Its a miracle my brother "" Another said " I can't explain what I saw. This car was going over the bridge but the rear tyre got hooked and flung them back into the road. "

 I smiled faintly. "Can you hear me?" A kind face hovering over me asked .. "You have been involved in an accident , do you have someone we can call"

Yes I do. He's my father..He died a year ago and is in heaven. Take my" phone and call him"He smiled and walked away" Ok I think she maybe in shock, or trauma,she isn't making any sense "...the man with the kind face said to another...

I smiled silently..Ofcourse I wasn't making any sense...I just had my first brush with death and it wasn't as scary as people make it seem

Emeh Achanga