Ironic Situation: Aren't Ambulances Supposed to Save You?

It was 5:00 pm on May 21, 2001. The sun was still shining and the birds were still chirping. Chanel and her daughter were driving down the road at a normal pace, but increasing in speed rapidly. As she got a text from her husband, she haphazardly unlocked her phone to check it, immediately putting herself and her daughter in danger.

As she started reading she got through the words, “Hey, honey how are you and…,” but before she could finish, there was an eighteen wheeler abolishing her and and her daughter’s future. There was an uncanny silence among the street. The cars stopped coming and nothing moved. Surprisingly, Chanel’s daughter, Shalyssa, survived the horrific crash. Since she was only eight years old, so she was crying out of fear only, she had not yet understood the flabbergasting fate of her mother. She did the best she could to get out of the car, and when she did she just stood in awe at what had happened. She then began calling for her mother.

“Mommy! Mommy! Are you okay?”

A near by car arrived at the scene, and called 911.

“Hello, my name is Carmen. Are you okay sweetie?”

Shalyssa answered timidly, “Yes, but I don’t know about my momma.”

“The ambulance will be here soon to check on you and your mom. Stay where you are,” Carmen assured her.

You could hear the ambulance from a thousand miles away, but the eighteen wheeler

blocked the view of when exactly it would arrive. As the sound of an alarm grew closer and closer they knew it was coming. Shalyssa’s heart was beating a million miles an hour and her emotions took over her. She began sprinting into the street. Her short, young legs wouldn’t take her very far, very fast, but soon enough something happened. She was hit. Completely demolished by some car. Carmen could hear the entire thing as she was trying to stop her. When she got to the other side of the eighteen wheeler, Carmen saw two things. An ambulance sitting there, with Shalyssa lying there in front of it. Lifeless.