Who among us hasn’t heard the seatbelt ding? For Mark Andrews, that ding may have saved his life.
About a month after a serious car crash, Andrews shared more details about what happened on “The Lounge” podcast this week.
Andrews was driving to work when the crash happened not far from the Under Armour Performance Center. He was driving the 2014 Toyota Tundra that his father had given him as a graduation gift, a reward for being named a Big-12 All-American.
“I just thought about people probably wake up in the hospital and have the moment of the last thing they hear is the seatbelt sound,” Andrews said. “And that’s kind of like a moment of like, ‘Oh crap, I should put it on.’ And then I put it on and two minutes later, I got in that wreck.
“I knew that if I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt, I’d be slung all over the place. It saved my life. God had told me that, when I heard the seatbelt sound, he told me to put it on.”
Andrews said the other driver was coming the opposite way straight at him.
“I had no control of what was going on. I tried my best,” Andrews said.
“It was scary. I’ve never been pulled over, never been in an accident, nothing like that. … We play football, so I know what it feels like to be hit, but that was really different. Just kind of at God’s mercy and his will and everything felt very slow in that moment.”
Andrews still went into work that day and participated in team meetings. But he said there’s still a bit of a mental hurdle.
“There’s times on the road where I can kind of recall it,” he said. “And that’s just a little bit of trauma going through that, but I feel great, I feel good. There’s nothing hindering me and I’m just thankful to God that he was able to protect me and told me to put my seatbelt on and save me.”
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