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There was a great story in our local newspaper, Friday, entitled, “Driver says rosary helped him cheat death” by Jack Poirier.
"Kevin Vilaca believes divine intervention is behind his new reputation as the man who cheated death.
The 28-year-old Centralia man credits a wooden rosary from Fatima, Portugal that his grandmother gave him and the big guy upstairs for his escape unscathed from a horrific train collision near Wyoming (Ontario, Canada) Thursday.
“I shouldn’t have walked away from it,” Vilaca told The Observer. “Thank goodness, I had the rosary my grandmother gave me.”
The swine veterinarian cheated death when the 2001 Ford Ranger he was driving to a client’s farm crumpled quicker than a pop can under the weight and momentum of a passing freight train on Minielly Road.
Vilaca said he was driving slowly, but once the truck hit black ice near the crossing, there was no stopping.
"I basically just said, ‘I’m screwed,’ " Vilaca recalled, “I thought I was going to die.”
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"Kevin Vilaca believes divine intervention is behind his new reputation as the man who cheated death.
The 28-year-old Centralia man credits a wooden rosary from Fatima, Portugal that his grandmother gave him and the big guy upstairs for his escape unscathed from a horrific train collision near Wyoming (Ontario, Canada) Thursday.
“I shouldn’t have walked away from it,” Vilaca told The Observer. “Thank goodness, I had the rosary my grandmother gave me.”
The swine veterinarian cheated death when the 2001 Ford Ranger he was driving to a client’s farm crumpled quicker than a pop can under the weight and momentum of a passing freight train on Minielly Road.
Vilaca said he was driving slowly, but once the truck hit black ice near the crossing, there was no stopping.
"I basically just said, ‘I’m screwed,’ " Vilaca recalled, “I thought I was going to die.”
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