I'm alive, I could be dead right now.

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I was seconds away from losing my life tonight. Want to know why? Despite starting to walk across the street on a GREEN light, I almost got hit by a bus driver who blew through a red light. I had just started to cross the street when a horn blasted and I looked to my left. All I saw was headlights of a bus that had blasted through the intersection. The driver slammed on the brakes, started to swerve and I panicked, not knowing which way to run. I was almost frozen in place, absolutely terrified for my life. The strange thing is, just before the light turned green for me, I thought about someone running the light and wondered what would happen if I'd gotten hit. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened, with the exception of being hit. After getting back on the sidewalk, the driver stopped and shut off the engine. I was sitting on the ledge of the lamp post by then, shaking like a leaf, but the driver didn't bother getting out to see if I was ok. I sat there, just freaked out beyond all belief, wondering what I would have done if I'd been hit. A cop, one I'm sure actually saw this had driven by and was gone already. The worst thing about this is that I had seen all the traffic stopped at the light, so I don't know where the bus came from. And it was an unmarked bus, so there was no way to report the driver, who had passengers on board. Now I'm scared to cross the street, wondering if anything will ever happen when I do. The only reason this happened tonight was because the ride that I was supposed to get never showed up and I had to take the bus home. If my ride had shown up, then I would not have faced this situation, nor would I be so terrified.