A Day I Will Never Forget Essay

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I was eight years old when I experienced the scariest thing in my life, and that is a day that I will never forget. My night started off very normal. I had gotten off the school bus and enjoyed the after school snack that my dad always had ready for me. I told him all about my day as I worked on my homework. He reminded me that my older sister Lexi had a basketball game that night, which I had completely forgotten about. So after I finished up my homework, I put on my superfan shirt with the name “Olander” written on the back in big blue sparkly letters. My dad and I were ready to go and on our way to way to the basketball game. It was a very rainy and foggy night. So foggy, that you could barely even see the road. The perfectly painted yellow lines on the road that were once vivid and …show more content…

The car was slipping all over the road and i remember crying the whole car ride. Thankfully nothing happened but it scared me enough to not like driving in bad weather. My dad could tell I was nervous and he kept on telling me to stay calm because everything would be okay, he knew what he was doing. My dad had never gotten in a car accident before and he wasn’t planning on it now. But that wasn’t the problem. I could see many other drivers swerving in and out of the lines and that was making me very nervous. My dad told me that we were almost at the gym which gave me a huge sense of relief. Just when I started to relax, the stoplight in front of us had just changed from green to yellow so my dad started to break. He had stopped the car in time and were at a complete stop, thank god I had thought in my head. My dad told me to hold onto the car and just as he said that, I heard a loud screaching noise coming from behind us. The car behind us didnt stop in time and hit the back of our car very hard. The noise of the crash is a noise that I will never be able to

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