Bad/Good Things That Happen Without the Aid of a Deity

[pocket god]

I was still a Christian at the time, and my friends and I were en route to a swimming spot a little ways out of town. My friend was an unfortunate stereotype of the bad female driver. After asking her to stop tailgating people and to stop texting while driving, because she was swerving out of our lane,  I prayed that she would drive more responsibly and that all of us would be safe. 
After a while the car's rear right tire popped and we had to stop on the side of the highway and put on the spare. The spare was low on air, but to our fortune and suspicion a nice guy in a truck stopped to lend us some help and ended up leading us to his house nearby, where he filled our spare tire and did not murder and eat us. 
So we decided not to go the rest of the way to the swimming spot because reasons, and headed for home in a much slower and supervised manner. As we went along, I remembered my prayer and considered if our mishap with the tire was an intervention by God. I looked off into the distance through the car window on my side and saw a large white cross. And at the time, I figured that was too coincidental to be anything but God. 
In times since, as I've driven down that same highway, I've often watched that side of the river that carries the cross I saw, and I still see it - along with all dozens of other crosses in remembrance of the dead that line the river. If I could, I would ask my younger self, "could it really not be a coincidence?"