Saved by my late grandmothers

SUSANNA OMURI, 30, from Chigwell, essex, is a stay-at-home mother to her 18-month-old daughter isla. She says: alMost 20 years ago, when I was 11, I visited a friend’s house. they lived on a dangerous bend and as I began to cross the road, a car came swerving around the corner.

It hit me hard, throwing me 30ft into the air. at that moment, suspended in the air above the car, time slowed and I got a clear vision of my two grandmothers — who had died when I was young — standing in a group of other people nearby, though I couldn’t recognise anyone else.

they were shouting at me and saying I couldn’t join them.

then they purposefully turned their backs on me.

the next thing I remember was hitting the bonnet of the car and then the road. I was in agony, but fully conscious the whole time.

despite being covered in bruises and suffering from shock, thankfully I was relatively unharmed.

an ambulance took me to the hospital and on the journey I couldn’t stop thinking about how angry my grandmothers had seemed.

the nurse told me that at the speed the car was going I should have died, and would have done if I had landed in any other way.

she said a fairy godmother must have been looking after me. I was sent home that day.

I was three when my first grandmother died and six when the other passed away. Being so young when they died, I had only a hazy recollection of what they looked like, but when I saw them at the moment of the car accident they were as clear as day.