I was driving home after dark one night, a long dark road. Suddenly this voice inside my head told me I was about to die. I wasn’t afraid, didn’t panic, but I did slow down. When I reached the point around a curve that dropped sharply toward the river, a car was speeding across a two-lane bridge in my lane passing slow cars. If I’d not slowed down when I heard that “small still voice” I would have been close, or on, that bridge and probably would have met that car head on in my lane.
Your story reminds me very much of an experience I had when I was in my early 20s, a very inexperienced driver. I had my first car.
I was driving in the winter, very cold and windy, but daytime. Ahead of me was a phenomenon I had never seen before: a white-out. Big open field to the left side of the road, strong wind blowing left-to-right. A solid wall of white in front of me. I'm driving toward this wall, thinking "hmm, look at that, I wonder what I should do?"
So I drive into the wall, and I'm immediately surrounded by a snowstorm. I take my foot off the gas, but I'm still going pretty fast.
At that moment, I swear, I hear breaking glass. I mean, like when you drop a glass bottle on the floor. I had the radio on and the heater turned up all the way. That sound was definitely coming from inside my head.
So I begin to apply the brakes as hard as I dare to. Sure enough, about five seconds later, I see dark shadows in front... it's a big, multi-car collision. Smashed cars pointing in every direction.
I don't think it was really a near-death experience though. No one was hurt, let alone killed. It was kind of a multi-car fender-bender.
Although if I had plowed into it at 40 mph, it could have been a near-death experience for someone else, I suppose.