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**__ By: Gabriel Williams __**
 * __A Story of Survival__ **

Richard Taylor closed his eyes tight, but it didn’t help. The Van hit a patch of ice and was sliding to the right. It veered across the icy surface towards the safety railing. He tried his brake again; the same old grinding sound came from his gear box. He tried his hand break again but it had gone with his gear box. Glancing back at the safety rail he put on his seat belt then BAM!!! He heard the crumpling of metal and he fell into blackness. He woke with start. He was in the water and must’ve fallen off the bridge. The water was freezing him, he was starting to panic. He kicked the door open and swam up but the car had sunk deep and his lungs were screaming for air and it was too much for his body. He fell into blackness once again. He woke on the surface, taking deep breaths he thought of his ordeal. Unfortunately it was hardly over. He realised he was heading for a waterfall, braced himself for the impact. Fortunately for Richard the waterfall was small, unfortunately for Richard the where a bit too many rock and a strong current. He was sucked down remarkably fast and imagined he was going into a black hole. The current then threw him underwater and then a loud CRACK!!!When he resurfaced he spotted a log to grab on to. He held on to it for dear life and pulled himself to land. He at last had a place to rest and was very exhausted. He rested his head on the snow and slept. When He woke he felt his clothes squeezing him. They had frozen hard. He took all the frozen clothes off so all he had left to were where his poncho, jeans and a T-shirt. When he tried to get up to walk he collapsed in intense pain shooting up his left leg. It was then that he realised that he had a broken leg. Realising he would have to crawl uphill 500m back to the road he became very depressed. He told himself he would have to start right away. He began the excruciating work and there was always that constant painful throb in his leg. As he crawled up the hill he came to a massive disappointment. He realised it would be easier to crawl downhill 700m to the road to crawl 500m to the other road. But it was too late now and he had to carry on. When he got to the road he realised that it was a very seldom used road and he would have to go 4km to the nearest village. No rescue people would find him because nobody knew where he was going. He suddenly got an idea; he could make a crotch so he could walk! Just as he got ready to walk a car appeared. "Hey! need some help?" the driver said. Richard Taylor gladly accepted.

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