We drove to Mesa and Tempe for the holidays in 1989. As I recall we drove through Las Vegas and across the Hoover Dam then on the long stretch to Phoenix. I must have driven at least 75 MPH on the latter route to make it by sundown.
The next morning I wanted to drive to a service station for some gas and an oil change. I left the house and stopped at a stop sign; as I began to turn onto the street, the car wouldn't move. I can't recall how we got the car to the dealer garage but there we learned that the right front axel had pulled out of the transmission. Had this happened as we drove at high speed on the way, the wheel would have collapsed and we would have careened off the highway at high speed. We could have been killed or injured seriously out on that lonely highway. Why did this not happen as we traveled at high speed, whereas I was turning at maybe 1 or 2 MPH after the stop sign?
I have said it on other blogs where there was danger that my guardian angels have watched over and protected us. This is certainly one of those times.
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