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Thanks to @jerrybanfield for this opportunity to share my story about my near death experience.

It happened about fifteen (15) years ago while I was still in secondary school. I happen to be the last child out of four (4) children, so I usually go to school with my elders ones.

Prior to the time of this near death experience, my mum usually warn me and my brother not to take bike to school ( In Nigeria motorcycle is one of our public means of transportation). However, because boys will be boys we do not always listen to my mum, we always take motorcycle to school.

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On this particular day, my brother and I took a motorcycle, and because the usually road that leads to my school was under going construction, we had to take another route that will later link back to the road.

In order to connect back to the road that leads to my secondary school, the motorcycle will have to climb a sort of hilly road. when the motorcycle was climbing the hilly road, an eighteen wheel trailer was also about to descend the hill. it's actually those kind of trailer that the "head" will turn first before the other part follow.

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Immediately the motorcycle rider saw the trailer making that turn, he quickly parked by the side of the road, very close to a sinking gutter. Unfortunately for us, the eighteen wheel trailer could not make the bend properly and was heading towards our motorcycle. At that point, it was very difficult for the trailer to stop, its very difficult for "Nigerian trailers" to stop on a leveled road not to talk of stopping when descending a hilly road.

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The motorcycle was parked by the hedge of the road and I was sat in he middle. I thought about jumping into the gutter, but if I attempted it, the bike will fall with me into the gutter, and there was still a high possibility of the trailer not making the bend properly and stilling falling into the gutter with us. So jumping was a bad idea, all these happened within less than one minutes,

Before I knew what was going on, my brother had jumped into the gutter, he could do that without the motorcycle falling too because he sat at the back. So, I was left alone with the motorcycle rider and an eighteen wheeler trailer heading towards us to crush us.

I, the motorcycle rider and everyone around began to shout, to be honest my mind went completely blank, it was like I froze. I was face to face with death because in some seconds the trailer will hit the motorcycle. However, to the glory of God the trailer miraculously stopped some CMs to the motorcycle. Immediately, I and the motorcycle rider came down from the bike and jumped over the gutter to the other side. 

That was how God saved me from imminent death.

Thanks for reading.

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