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This morning at 10:30am Lisa was on 8-Mile heading east on her way to work. Unbeknownst to her, a bank robber was tearing down Beech Daly trying to escape from the police. When the light went green and she entered the intersection of 8-Mile and Beech Daly she was greeted with a southbound white commercial van heading straight for her Jeep. She hit the gas to try and get out of the way but the van was going too fast and impacted the left rear door of her truck. She then either spun or was pushed into a pole that impacted her right rear door. By hitting the gas she placed both impacts in the rear doors of the truck rather than the driver and passenger doors, so she only received scrapes and bruises. As you can tell from the photos, if she hadn't hit the gas she would have had much more serious injuries. The news story said the robber then tried to carjack another vehicle but before he could the police caught up and captured him (that's Lisa on the stretcher in the news story). After initially driving to the wrong hospital, I finally found her and confirmed she was not critical. After an hour of sitting with her she was smiling and laughing again despite the pain killers she was on, which made me very happy. It boggles my mind to think of how many vehicles go through that intersection a day, and the chances of her Jeep being in that spot when the escape van comes through. She's currently recovering as her muscles and bruises heal up from the impact. Thanks to everyone who called or emailed, I passed your concerns on to her.