His car up on its side after

he wrecked on Peachtree Parkway near McIntosh Trail Wednesday morning,

Jared Smith remembered wondering if anyone was going to stop and help

him.

Smith, 24, of Fayetteville,

saw several vehicles pass by as if a vehicle on its side "was nothing

new" before someone stopped and called 911.

"I was just looking out

my window and people kept driving by until someone stopped," Smith

said. "... It was a good two or three minutes before someone stopped."

Paramedics from the Peachtree

City Fire Department responded and after making sure he was okay, Smith

was allowed to shimmy out of the broken rear windshield of his car. He

emerged relatively unscathed.

"I don't know what

I would have done if I would have hit somebody," Smith said. "I

definitely had somebody looking out for me."

Smith said he just lost control

of the vehicle as he was driving northbound on Peachtree Parkway. He was

going to Booth Middle School, where he works as a custodian while he's

getting his degree from Clayton College and State University with plans

to become a teacher.

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