It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and she was driving to a Navy Moms picnic in North Canton when something ahead of her caught her eye in the southbound lanes of Interstate 77 near the Waterloo Road exit.“For whatever reason, someone just kept darting in and out of traffic. It just seemed like this person wasn’t happy unless they were going to be right up front,” the woman said.“All of a sudden, like the blink of an eye ­— I immediately thought of the Christian song, Blink — I saw nothing but a big, white cloud of smoke.”The woman, who wished to be identified only as C. Hope of Northwest Ohio, said she thought someone’s car had exploded.Somehow, while shaking, crying and praying that no one was hurt, she said, she slammed on her brakes, grabbed her camera when the smoke cleared — and took a photo of the granite spill that backed up traffic on I-77 for five hours Saturday.“Everything was so fast, everything that happened was just so fast,” the woman said in an interview with the Beacon Journal Monday.Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards confirmed there were no injuries from the granite spill, which covered all of the southbound lanes at the Waterloo exit, or from the massive traffic jam that followed.The crash that caused the spill was reported at 12:06 p.m., and work crews from the city’s Highway Maintenance bureau and Johnny’s Towing company cleared the expressway by 5 p.m., Edwards said.And C. Hope?She said she saw someone driving through the pile of rubble immediately after the crash, without any tires blowing out, and decided to try it herself. “You couldn’t drive around the crash, so I drove over all the pieces on the road in front of me. I went very slowly over it, and it felt like pieces of marble,” C. Hope said.She said she took the next exit and made it to the picnic by about 1 p.m., with no scratches on her or her car, a blue Kia Spectra.“I was thanking God for saving me, and I was still praying and hoping the people who actually were hit in the accident were OK. That is still my concern. I hope and pray that they’re fine,” C. Hope said.She sent her photo of the spill in an email to the Beacon Journal at 11:07 p.m. Sunday.It was taken with a Kodak EasyShare digital camera with a 5-power optical zoom lens, she said.Edwards said the crash and spill involved only three vehicles.A silver 2006 Volvo ISX driven by Chuck Chadrasekaran, 44, of Gary, Ind., was stopped in traffic, Edwards said, when he was hit from behind by a 2004 Toyota Corolla.The Toyota driver, Mark Sibley, 33, of Broadview Heights, who tried to stop, Edwards said, swerved to the left and struck the Volvo in the rear.Edwards said Sibley was cited for failing to keep an assured clear distance.The truck driver, identified by Edwards as Micheal Abney, 35, of London, Ohio, saw the collision and slammed on his brakes.“That caused his load to shift and all the stuff to fall off the trailer,” Edwards said. He said the truck driver was not charged.Tracy Mathewson, safety director of the trucking company Building System Transportation of London, said the truck had a 48-foot flatbed trailer.Mathewson said the driver was headed back to London with a load of raw granite. It was in slabs that would be cut down to design countertops, she said.She said the load was a complete loss. She said there was no estimate of its value.Mathewson said the truck and trailer were not damaged and the company will not take any action against the driver.C. Hope, meanwhile, said she was still shaken Monday by the thought of what might have happened.“It is a miracle, a true miracle, that no one was hurt,” she said.Ed Meyer can be reached at 330-996-3784 or at emeyer@thebeaconjournal.com.