This woman is lucky to be alive
Elizabeth Kalik is lucky to be alive, and she knows it. So do the 3.5 million Facebook users over the last two weeks who have watched the dash cam video showing her driving 65 MPH in the left lane of an Oregon freeway, where a large piece of construction-grade plastic suddenly attached itself to her windshield, completely obliterating any view of the road ahead.
“I was on my way to work,” she said in a phone interview, “And was running late because prior to me getting on the freeway there had been a police pursuit of a Budget rental truck believed to be loaded with stolen goods. In the process of the pursuit the truck struck construction barrels and so those were in the highway lanes. So while we were dodging those, the pursuit ended in an accident which caused traffic to come to a complete stop.
She was unable to avoid the plastic and that’s all there is to it, she says. “I don’t know if it was because of the intake vents or just the way the air flowed, it just sucked onto my windshield, hard. Everyone said ‘Oh, you should have used your windshield wipers!’ I work at 911 and I showed it to our supervisor and that was the first thing he said, ‘You should have used your windshield wipers!’ I don’t think that would have worked.
But Kalik, unlike many drivers, has had training to handle just the sort of emergency she encountered – and she handled the situation perfectly. “I’ve taken defensive driving courses, I’ve taken EVOC courses and skid courses,” she said. “I was in the military and assigned to the Military District of Washington in D.C. where we had to occasionally drive assorted dignitaries or executives, and that required defensive driving courses. Later on, I went into law enforcement and as part of the training at the police academy, we took pursuit driving training.” “In a crisis I’m pretty good, I’m just hyper-focused and on-task,” she said.
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