This story came from Ray Getzinger, who comments frequently on our blog. It’s about his grandson, Nick, and perhaps it will serve as a warning to all of us to pay attention to synchronistic patterns that unfold in our lives.
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On July 24, 2005, Nick was a passenger in a car going 100 MPH that hit a breakaway pole so hard the top came off the car and the bumper was tattooed with the license plate number. Nick walked away from that tangled mess of metal in the photo with just a few bruises and cuts and a sore shoulder. The driver was drunk and drag racing with another car. In this accident, Nick was the least injured. Here’s the bumper tattoo:
Five years later, around another holiday – Labor Day – Nick was also the passenger
in a car that was doing 60 MPH as it made a 10 MPH curve. This time, Nick wasn’t
as lucky. He lost a large chunk of his scalp, right down to the lining of his
skull. He’s out of the hospital now – the same hospital he went to after the first accident – and and his dressings are being changed by the mother of a friend who is a wound care nurse. In this accident, he was the most badly injured.
“I think that something like this series of accidents needs to be told as a warning
to those who just don’t get how serious being on the roads is,” Ray writes.
The patterns are remarkable:
Both accidents happened on or around a holiday
Nick was a passenger in both accidents
He was treated at the same hospital both times
Both accidents resulted from excessive speed
Whatever Nick was supposed to learn with the first accident, where he walked away
from it and was the least injured of those involved, apparently wasn’t heeded,
so the second time, the lesson was more forceful.
question is why the kid in his skivies called one of those 4 buddies across the road just to get hit by a car in
King's book/movie "Dream Catcher" by the way Rob what was the toll…..
Wow, Terri. Your attitude is amazing. Like Nat says, it's a whole different angle.
Nat – I like that whole sentence!
Ray – he'll get it. He has you for a grandfather!
Nick still hasn't learned one lesson he should have learned from the latest accident. Even though he was wearing a seatbelt he had taken if off and tried to get out of the car before the accident when the driver had scared him by taking the curve in the opposite direction and then stopping. When Nick opened the door to get out the driver called him a chicken and took off. Nick did not have time to put it back on before the crash.
Just two days ago after returning from the chiropractor with me driving he took off his seatbelt when we got in the court at home while the car was still moving. His best friend who was also a passenger didn't even put his on at first. I told him if he didn't put his seatbelt on the car wouldn't move.
I had an accident in 1964 when seatbelts were new in cars. There were no shoulder belts so I hit my nose on the steering wheel. Since that time I won't move my car from in front of my driveway forward two car lengths along the curb without clicking my seatbelt. In the 60s I used to be a smoker. Wearing my seatbelt is just as much a habit as was lighting up.
Ray
Wow, now that is another angle altogether, Terri. Hmm…….
During the years my hubby was constantly on-the-road for work there were numerous near-miss disasters. Like being a day late or a few minutes early to have been a victim of some catastrophe.
That's the irony of his car accident in 2002. He did everything right, seat belt on, had good distance to stop in time and avoid the crash in front of him. The truck behind him even had time to swerve out of the way. It was the van following too close behind the truck that was the culprit. My hubby's recovery has been an interesting journey for me. He's had physical issues, and memory glitches and developed fears and phobias, that still cling 8 years later. He got a metal plate in his neck 4 years ago.
Not sure what the message was, since I already watched for messages and had an understanding of synchronicity even then.
Sometimes there is a greater purpose behind random events that put us on a different path. In many ways his accident changed my life more than it did his, and if it hadn't changed my life, I wouldn't be who I am today.
You will get a tap from spirit, then a nudge, then a push, then velvet mallet and then WHAM.
I have learned to move on the tap. 🙂
going south, back in 91 (at a point in time when I was suppose to be delivering brother to the dentist) about an hour and half north of where JD was at his final moment,, a "little birdie" on my shoulder told me to drive a little father south and come up "101" rather then head right over and go south then U-turn. Not listeing to little birdie,, getting on ole 101 (monterey) asian female comes running across road, from left,,,, like someones chasing her,, I've got I contact,,, she's not running in front of my car,, course she had gotten a flat tire and left her CAR in the LEFT hand lane,,, she had gone across the road to call a tow truck.. "asian drivers",,, life change in the moment……
Six friends in one accident?! Wow. That kind of event stays with you forever.
I've had many friends and family members get injured and even killed in car accidents. In my junior year in high school, six of my friends /classmates were tragically killed in one accident. Alcohol was involved. I have never forgotten that lesson and will not ride in a car with anyone who has been drinking and driving, nor will I ride with someone who is known as a reckless driver. To me, that is just tempting fate.
This is not an afterthought….I just want to wish Ray's grandson Nick a healthy recovery with no permanent consequences! (Except perhaps learning a harsh lesson in the worst possible way!) Sending good thoughts for healing. cj
Yes, Mike, seatbelts are mandated in the entire U.S. But as I mentioned, my husband follows his own rules of the road. He has been ticketed for not wearing his seatbelt and for speeding, both of which raised our insurance rates and put points on his license and still he does not click it and still he speeds. Many folks have told him he has a death wish. But it isn't that. He was raised in the mountains where young men drove like maniacs all over the place up there where there were no real rules of the roads, and he never grew out of the habit. I fear for him, and for anyone in his path and anyone in his car, including myself. I ride with him in the SUV, but never in the ExCalibur. It's bad enough in the SUV. He knows better. His biggest problem is he enjoys looking at everything he passes instead of paying attention to driving, ignores lights and signs and speed limits. He's been lucky so far. I can't help but wonder when his luck will run out due to his foolishness. It's a real worry. cj
Unfortunately some people don't want to listen and some never will. History is scattered with such examples.
I saw in one comment about not wearing a seat belt – isn't this compulsory in the US?
oh, geeee – i'm exhausted just reading these amazing stories! cj, i remember your story very well! and yes, a hundred times yes, as to our receiving warnings and not heeding them – my own son's harrowing experience at death's door even with all his resolution after he survived to live a different life and the lessons he took from that experience have lost their significance for him over time – we all like to believe that we are physically immortal and allow our warnings and lessons to float away with the passage of time – great post, as always, macgregors!
Connie, your Excalibur story reminded me of the James Dean death tale that we posted earlier.
https://ofscarabs.blogspot.com/search?q=James+Dean
Not only being in a circle of irresponsible people, Butternut, but being irresponsible in a repetitive manner oneself. My husband is a horrific driver. He doesn't drink,ever, but he has his own rules of the road and creates terrible hazards for himself and other drivers, and for passengers in HIS vehicles, usually ME. His driving isn't a joke but he thinks it's fun. I sense it's a tragedy waiting to happen, and he simply won't listen or pay attention to the warning signs. On top of being such an irresponsible driver, he doesn't wear his seatbelt. And he owns and drives an ExCalibur, which has a powerful 454 engine but is a small car, no protection if crashed. (Ffffaaassssttttttt!!!!) I have never stepped foot inside the Excalibur, nor shall I. Every time I look at it in the garage, I get the most awful feeling. But my hands are tied. I tell him, quite seriously, that his "angels" will get tired one of these days. He's a cat with nine lives and has exhausted all nine and is going on the second nine. I'm not programming it. I sense it already is programmed but he could change it, if he only would. Very relevant, astonishing WV: "pegishre" peg is here. Our direct next door neighbor is Peg. She was in a horrible crash last week. (She's OK.) WOW! What a synchro WV! cj
Listen to your little voice – the one that says to not get in that car. Unfortunately when it comes to alcohol the little voice is relegated to the back seat. And there is usually alcohol involved in excessive speed and young men.
I tell my boys versions of this story all of the time. If you put yourself in a circle of irresponsible people, you will be doomed to a cycle of bad experiences. We have a relative who constantly illustrates this point for me. It's one of those obvious lessons that people miss time and again.
I remember this harrowing story, Connie. We did a post on it here:
https://ofscarabs.blogspot.com/2010/03/dead-mans-curve.html
The Universe often gives us warnings about paths in our lives, and choices, that can be changed. Sometimes we heed the Voice, sometimes we don't. We had a friend in GA who had been out drinking,driving too fast, was alone in his vehicle, had an accident on a specific date at a specific time in a specific place, and was pronounced dead, virtually every bone in his body broken. He was resusitated and lived, and actually suffered no permanent damage in spite of the extent of his injuries. He didn't learn. Exactly two years later, same precise scenario. On the same date, at the same moment, in the same curve in the road, he crashed a second time and was carried to the same hospital as the first time. This time there were no apparent injuries. He sustained a closed head injury and was dead. Trish and Rob know the intricate details of this true story. Don died EXACTLY two years after the first crash, after drinking,driving too fast, on the exact same date at the exact same time at the exact same location at the exact same hospital. The only thing different was the car. I know these facts because I filled out the insurance papers for his wife on both occasions, and had the police reports in my hands. I truly have the conviction that so often we receive warnings, and unfortunately miss the warning or, if we do "get" it, we don't heed it. Great, great post, Guys. Patterns exist in each of our lives, and our souls do KNOW. cj