The never-ending series of storms and record rainfall in Washington state had motorists slowing down on the Skagit River Bridge just to marvel at the high waters. It was this curious distraction that caused an accident that state troopers can hardly believe wasn’t fatal on Nov. 16. A woman on the bridge was traveling northbound in a Nissan Altima behind a semitruck when that truck slowed for the traffic ahead. She was forced to slow, but unfortunately, another semitruck right behind her failed to do so, and rammed into the back of her vehicle, literally folding the rear trunk onto the car roof, squishing it like a metal, mangled pancake. Officers who responded to the scene never expected survivors—let alone that the woman would escape with “minor injuries.” “The actual trunk of the car folded onto the back compartment of the vehicle, and the semitruck continued over that, treated that …