I was leaving my teller job at a local bank in Santa Cruz, CA twenty nine years ago when I was twenty eight years old. I walked to work five days a week. It was a lovely walk from my home to the bank through a residential neighborhood and took me about fifteen minutes. As I left work this particular day, I noticed it was beginning to rain so I was using my umbrella as I crossed the busy street in front of the bank. I was using the crosswalk and it was a crosswalk without any stop lights. So I always looked very carefully before I crossed the street. I did see cars far to the right of the crosswalk but the speed limit was twenty five mph so I felt I had plenty of time to cross. As I started across and had stepped several steps in the road, I was hit by a car. The next thing I remembered was waking up in the hospital with a nurse telling me I was going into surgery soon and I had been hit by a car.

I did fully recover after about six weeks after having surgery to repair my broken right shoulder, broken right elbow, and torn right knee ligaments. Also my pelvis was fractured. I was lucky to have a top emergency room doctor operate on me and care for me during my two week stay in the hospital.

While recuperating in the hospital I was informed that I was hit by a drunk driver who fled the scene after hitting me. He did return later but not to own up to hitting me but just to see if I was going to survive. The police questioned him when they saw his damaged windshield and witnesses said he was the driver so he was arrested right away after also failing a sobriety test.

I was informed several months later during the court hearing for the drunk driver that a couple had stopped their car to protect me while I was laying unconscious in the crosswalk. I never found out who this couple was but I know they were my guardian angels. I have thought about their heroic act quite frequently through the years and I am so grateful for this Divine power of angels from God. I was very young when this accident happened and have had a lot of wonderful times since this horrific day. I thank my blessings from God everyday and I’m so thankful to God for sending my guardian angels to save my life on that rainy evening.