NJ Toll Worker Skips Work Over Premonition That Proved True, Saving Her Life
A New Jersey toll worker's gut feeling to skip work saved her from tragedy.
Jessica Daley, a toll collector along the Garden State Parkway, called out of work on Friday morning after waking up to a premonition that something bad was going to happen at work that day, according to News12 Long Island.
"The morning of the accident, we had like really bad storms, and I woke up around 2 a.m., and I just had like a really bad gut feeling that something was going to happen," she told the news outlet.
"When my alarm went off at 4 a.m., the wind and the rain still sounded really bad, and I just had a horrible feeling that if I drove into work, I was going to get into a car accident... so I called out."
In a statement to NBC New York, Daley said she "literally never calls out of work."
Fortunately, she listened to her gut instinct because later that morning, a garbage truck crashed into the collector's booth she was usually in.
The crash left the garbage truck driver and the toll booth attendant injured and hospitalized. The truck also crashed into a Chevy pickup, but its driver was luckily left unharmed.
Daley said that her immediate response after receiving word of the accident was tears and prayer.
"My immediate response honestly, I dropped to my knees and just started crying. I was praying for everybody involved and thanking God that I had that feeling to call out," she told the outlet.
While she felt grateful for being spared from the incident, she said a "part of [her] feels kind of bad because [she] called out and people got hurt."
With this experience, Daley said her faith was strengthened even more.
"As of recently, I started getting a lot closer to God in the last three months... I believe 100% that God was looking out for me," she said.
The next day after the tragedy, she went back to work as usual.
