When Morgan Lake (pictured) sat obliviously in her car as traffic on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge moved at a snail’s pace, something told her to look in to her rearview mirror. When she saw an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer barreling down behind her, she just knew its driver would stop…but it didn’t. Instead, the tractor-trailer hit her at full impact, catapulting her — still trapped inside her vehicle — atop a 3.5 foot barrier, where she momentarily teetered. Lake then plummeted 40 feet in to the bay’s waters. But as Lake began to descend in to the water, the 22-year-old quickly decided she did not want to die this way and found a way to save her own life, according to The Washington Post. Lake explained, how in an instant, she went from panic to calm, “You can do this,” she told herself as the car’s cabin reportedly filled with water. “I got myself together.” After the Calvert C ...
