CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Texas truck driver Jackson Musyoka might look beaten, bruised and weak while he recovers in the hospital, but his mind and his recollection of last Thursday are anything but.
"I remember everything," Musyoka told Eyewitness News.
Musyoka's truck was traveling on Interstate 85 Thursday when he said something happened that would change his life forever.
"I was holding my steering wheel and my steering, something snapped on it," Musyoka said.
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He feared that hitting the brakes at 70 mph would turn the tires toward cars packed on the interstate so he veered off the road.
"I'm watching everything like a movie (now), like the way I'm looking at you," Musyoka said.
The truck ended up at the bottom of an embankment along the interstate.
Chopper 9 Skyzoom was overhead for some of the almost 4-hour rescue as crews tried to get him out. First responders quickly gave him the bad news.
"This isn’t going to be an easy fix because you are stuck," Musyoka recalled them saying.
After crews finally pulled him out, his left leg had to be amputated. He'll be OK and he believes it all goes back to his decision to not hit the brakes.
"If I had hit the brakes -- the first instinct -- I would have killed so many people there on the road, and I did not go that route so God was like, ‘You know, I think I'm going to save you,'" Musyoka said.
He is grateful to be alive.
“It was not my day to go,” he said.
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