Beyond protecting their privacy, and adding paragraph breaks into a solid block of text, I didn’t change anything.
I agree with your assessment that the truck wasn’t going 50, if for no other reason than a collision was avoided.
Still, that was his assessment, how accurate would you or I be under the circumstances of nearly seeing our young child obliterated from existence in front of our very eyes?
It sounds more and more supernatural to me.
I read an account about a fellow who accepted the Lord for salvation, but didn’t see a screeching change in his life that very moment. Instead, a visible repentance took shape over decades. In fact he got into some pretty bad trouble during that time.
I am trying to remember the name of the book. The author was Zane Hodges. The pastor of a church I used to go to, knew the author. There was a chapter titled “Thunderbird.” This told the story of how our salvation recipient got high on drugs and tried to drive home from many miles away, and there was a Thunderbird behind him who kept on honking whenever he would drift out of consciousness, until he arrived in his driveway — then the Thunderbird was gone.
Angels can appear in heavenly chariots. Why not in automobiles... and why can’t Satan do that too? This is all activity in a supernatural sphere and we should be awestruck because it violates all our earthly rules, yet doesn’t violate God’s rules, the God who permits the devil to sin and yet within constrained limits.
Speaking as someone that’s been in the position of your so-called ‘devil’ despite not only being fully within the law but actually going below the speed limit and having encountered parents like this? Yeah, parents tend to vastly underestimate distances, overestimate speeds and demonize those they think were ‘responsible’ for the near accident when their failures to control their children were at least an equal if not greater a contributor than anything else.
When my last cat was less than two years old, he was smarter than this child about crossing the street. He would carefully look both ways before he set paw in the street and constantly keep checking to make sure no cars were coming. If there was a car, he would run to the nearest curb and wait for the street to be completely clear. If it wasn’t clear after a while, he’d simply go do something else and not cross the street. If your five year old child is not smarter than a sub two year old cat about crossing the street, your child *needs* to be on a leash. That may be harsh, but it’s the truth.
Have they considered the fact that if there *was* a collision, the second truck would likely have obliterated anyone standing behind it being ‘shielded’ as the impact would have knocked it spinning? That the parent or parents could also have been killed and then where would their surviving children or family members have been? Since the second “shielding” driver pulled an illegal move to block the road, that driver might have been found at fault for any accident and legally been responsible for causing deaths himself through no real fault of his own. All because this person’s child was not under control.