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[Jona Lendering]

what a small impact can do on a car

That is indeed the shocking part of the story: seeing that dent in the car, and knowing that if the other car would have collided with the taxi a bit more, you'd be dead. Of course, you're theoretically aware that cars are constructed with side impact bars, and that to create a deeper hole, exponentially more energy is needed - but that is only a theoretical awareness. To see that dent and realize that only fifteen centimeters separated you from disaster, is quite disheartening.

Perhaps God/Jupiter/Budha or whatever god you believe in must like you :wink:

That was one of my first thoughts as well, when I realized that the three of us were unharmed: "An angel must have been sitting on our shoulders", as the Dutch proverb says. And when I started to walk back to the station, I thought about what my father had said when he had survived falling from a balcony and breaking his neck: "Obviously, Someone Up There still needs me for something down here." When you're still in a state of shock, religion is always close. But on second thoughts - it would be a bit immodest to believe that God has for my benefit suspended the Laws of Physics.