Yesterday afternoon as I was driving eastward away from Nashville along Hermitage Ave.
which becomes Lebanon Pike, 94.5 "The Hippy Station" was playing the song "Close To You" by "The Carpenters"
I was relaxed and enjoying the music when a White Pontiac Lemans traveling at a high rate of speed, faster than everyone else on the road, suddenly veered directly in front me, I slammed on my brakes thinking we were about to have a head on collision.
The other car couldn't have come closer to me, veering off the road directly in front of my car running through a telephone post (I think) turning it in to toothpicks, only a third or less of the post was left hanging by cables or wires.
The vibration was so strong in my car that I initially thought he had clipped my right front passenger side.
His car kept going another 100 feet or so in to a ditch hitting another post and his engine caught fire.
I pulled my car over to the side of the road and along with another 10-15 men ran over to his car in an attempt at getting him out.
People were coming out of nearby businesses and other cars and we started yelling for them to bring fire extinguishers, to which several people did.
We were able to put the fire out, but the driver's side door was so damaged that even with a crow bar we couldn't open it, and the inside of his car was filling with toxic smoke.
Someone brought the short length of a water hose and it was held to the semi-conscious man's mouth so that he could breathe, it was so bad, we were even choking on the smoke.
After a few minutes, the police, fire trucks and an ambulance arrived on the scene and they used the "Jaws of Life" to extricate the man.
They were putting him on a stretcher when I left and I don't know what happened to him or what caused him to speed so fast and veer his car, drinking alchohol, heart attack, falling asleep at the wheel or just driving too fast to make the curve.
When I inspected my car it had not been hit but it couldn't have been "closer to me" without actually hitting my car.
Perhaps the music and the event were just a cosmic coincidence but there have been quite a few occasions when while driving and going over a decision, previous argument with someone or a debate in my mind as to a decision to make, that a song was played which seemed to indicate an obvious answer.
This was however the most dramatic occasion when a song and real life seemed to mesh seemlessly.
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Hope that guy's ok,too. Love Hippy Radio, the "only radio station with a bald spot". 
They don't always play Hippy Music despite their name, but mostly it's good stuff.
Heard stuff I hadn't heard in decades. "Chicka Boom"
Around here I listen on the radio (when I do,) to WKLH out of Milwaukee, Dave and Carol in the morning, Downstairs Dan in the evening, and of course, every Friday, 5 pm...
"he exploded on stage" 
I love this one as well.
Thanks for the tunes, Archae
that video had so many pretty women in it. 
I bet they were.
Peace to you, DonRedwood.
territory .
But as I posted above in response to Lars, they do play mostly good music, it's my favorite radio station, however keep an eye on the ownership and their playlist so the term "Hippy" doesn't become co-opted.
Peace to you,
I like that song.
Thanks and peace to you, Raindog.
Peace to you,
Peace to you,
Glad you're OK Uncle Joe 
glad you are okay. It must have been very scary!
I have to be in the right kind of mood but it's possible you'd hear me belting out the Carpenters in my car... especially on long highway drives. 
I was more nervous running up to his car when the engine caught fire, thinking the gas tank might explode or something.
I always loved the Carpenters, Karen died too young. 
Peace to you,
Peace to you,
Their meaning is not always apparent at first, though. When I recognize something as being a sign, I open up right away to my surroundings for the meaning of the sign and stay aware until the meaning is clear. I have lived a large part of my life out in the natural world, where distractions are minimal, and have learned that it is very prudent to acknowledge signs.
Glad you are OK, Uncle Joe, and nice job of clearly reporting events.
Has a relevant song ever played at such an amazingly perfect time that it made you shake your head and laugh at the "coincidence"?
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once I was listening to AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" when I got pulled over for having expired tags, and I was only two blocks from my home.
Edit for P.S. To make matters worse, my car battery died after he gave me the ticket, the police officer had to jump me off.
Edit for double P.S. If they play H2H on the radio, I don't listen to it anymore and after thinking more about it, I decided to remove the link of that song from this post.
Thanks for the good wishes and peace to you, Zorra.
I couldn't live with myself if I had left or did nothing and he burned alive or died of smoke inhalation.
As I posted in the OP there were ten to fifteen other people running to the car as well, that kind of inspiration made the task easier.
Sometimes you never know who your friends are.
Peace to you, cherokeeprogressive.
Have a good night.
There is most defintely a cosmic or connected feeling when those serendipitous song listening moments happen.
This has happened to me many times as well, most of the time it's when I'm actively engaged in mental thought over an intense decision, searching for an answer to a debate or argument, recalling a memory from long ago, or having just experienced an external event good and bad and the song matches up perfectly.
Thanks for the well wishes, llmart and peace to you.
