A near death experience passes me by today

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Just today, I was waiting for the green right turn arrow to show on the traffic lights. It came after a short wait, and I proceeded with my right turn. I was on my way to the local church, with my wife. Just then, another car went right through the red light. It was coming directly for my car. My wife later told me that the guy had his head down, texting something into his mobile phone. Somehow the scene then slowed right down. His car seemed to slow, as did mine. Then somehow, miraculously even, we moved past each other, without hitting each other. “What happened there?”, I then asked myself. The Zen master said to his student, “Do you want to be a master today, or tomorrow?” The student replied, “Today, of course.” And all the master then replied to him was, “Own it, be it, and let the rest go.” The student was immediately enlightened at this because, none of the rest, even all of his past history up until then ever counts against you, when you see, or become aware of the inner growth that is being obtained by you as your soul. Your soul is always growing in its aware consciousness from your experiences. Your outer life itself is rather miniscule in its way, but because you are overly focussed upon it right now, you might think that you are not growing much at all, but these fifty odd years that you have might have already lived up until now are as nothing to your soul. This aside though, really the growth in you has been phenomenal, in your moving stuff across to your consciousness, from your unconscious knowing of it. This is what counts. The outer application of this increased consciousness will come as required, like today, when I went into slomo mode, and avoided that accident, even though my karma was pulling me into it to happen for me to me today. I felt this pulling of me towards the accident, and it seemed unavoidable to avoid, as I seemed to be numbed into a trance of some sort, and I felt that could do nothing of myself to avoid the coming collision, or so it had seemed to me, at the time. That’s why I felt spaced out, and as if I was in a time warp, for a moment. Have you ever experienced anything similar to this?