BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - An East Bridgewater woman managed to escape injury Wednesday afternoon after a large branch crashed into her car in Brockton.
A tree branch broke straight through Deborah Clish’s windshield and stopped short just inches from her face as she drove down Pearl Street in Brockton around 3:45 p.m. The force of the impact blowing out the back windows of her Volkswagen Golf.
Clish, 65, said she was on her way home from visiting her father in the hospital and was in good spirits after the crash.
She said she would not be alive for it not for a higher power telling her to duck.
“All of a sudden I heard God’s voice speak to me. ‘Debbie, Duck!” she said. “I’ve learned in my spiritual walk to listen and when he tells me something, sometimes I argue, but in this particular instance, I didn’t argue with him. ”
Clish said the reason she is alive is to tell her story.
“It felt like snow on my arm. So I opened the door, and I looked and I just said, ‘Thank you God, thank you God,’ and I just kept saying it.”
Her car is a total loss.
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