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A couple managed to escape death miraculously and their photo of affection after the crash has been going viral on Facebook. The two who did not even know how they came out of alive said that their car accident happened within three seconds of spotting a pole and crashing into it. Arika Stovall, a student of Lipscomb University and her boyfriend, Hunter Hanks, were coming back to Nashville, Tennessee from Florida on New Year's Day when the couple's pick-up truck swerved into a bridge support. The couple is still wondering how they managed to be alive even though Hanks' pick-up truck slammed into a concrete slab at 75-80mph. The truck, Toyota Tundra, and its mangled photos left many speechless. "I don't know how we lived through that," Stovall, a graphic design student, tells CNN affiliate WTVF.

The couple revealed a photo of them on Facebook, wearing neck braces. "Three seconds. That's how long we had from the moment we drifted off the road until the truck hit the pillar at 85 mph," the post starts. Throughout her post, throughout this Facebook post, Stovall tells the people to believe in power of love and god. "We're so grateful for this wreck and all it will do in our lives," she writes, reported Fox6 News.

A close mutual friend of the two, Savannah Gaines, clicked the photo that went viral when the couple saw each other hours after the accident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "It was unbelievable when they saw each other. I know them so well, and they love each other so much. They were completely blessed to walk away from that," Gaines says.

They didn't think that the photo will gain so much attention on social media. It has more than 71,000 shares on Facebook, so far. "We've gotten hundreds of messages just telling us that our story brought them out of a dark place in their life and changed their life," Stovall tells WTVF, as reported by Pop Herald.