An Unguarded Moment

An Unguarded Moment 

By Paul McCann 

Driving downhill to the town at midday as the thunder and lightening was going on .

I saw the lightening strike in front of me and a large the white ball of energy hovered about ten feet off the ground . 

The next thing I saw was telegraph poles moving back and forward with all the overhead power wires aggressively wriggling in waves all the way up the hill .

Time seemed to stand still as I watched in slow motion a huge tree in a field on the left side of the road about 25 yards in front me start to fall down towards the road in front of my car .

I hit the brakes hard and came ti a stop centimetres away from the trunk of the tree that had blocked the entire road  .

I got out of the car and heard music but had no idea where it was coming from .

I stood beside the fallen tree .

The thickness of the tree trunk was about my size as I Tstood beside it . There was no other traffic on the road  . Suddenly a 

horse bolted out from a paddock nearby and galloped towards the tree and with a massive leap  it jumped over the tree trunk lying across the road .

The smell of something burning was in the air .

With no where for me to go I climbed up and sat on the tree trunk .

Then two people appeared from nowhere and started to argue . As they were screaming four children arrived , screaming and crying .

I called over to them , but they completely ignored me as if I wasn’t there . After a shirt while I heard sirens and coming down the road I saw the flashing lights of a fire engine and an ambulance.

Then a rescue vehicle arrived . They asked if I was injured and I told them I was ok  .

The rescue team started push g chain saws to cut up the high tree that blocked the road 

About half an hour later the tree was removed from the road and I was told I could to drive away but to go slowly as there was a car accident on the road ahead .

Then I saw the terrible scene that haunts me to this day .  The bodies of four children were lying on the side of the road covered in blood , beside them were the bodies of two adults and a dead horse that lay on top of a car that had been squashed by the horse .

That evening on the news there was a story of an entire family who had been killed in a tragic accident by a horse who landed on their car . 

The End