UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - David Zoeckler, of Clark Mills, feels blessed to be alive after a tree came crashing down on his car while he was driving during a powerful storm back on May 14th.  Zoeckler was clinically dead when he arrived at the hospital that day.
    
Zoeckler says he only remembers a portion of that day leading up to the crash on Limberlost Road in Kirkland.
    
He was told he was driving home when a tree fell on his car.  "Apparently I tried to correct or something," Zoeckler said.  "My foot must have hit the gas and apparently I knocked a telephone pole down and then I hit a stump and flipped the car."
    
Zoeckler was told he laid there, unconscious for several minutes. He says his OnStar emergency system called to his vehicle, and when there was no answer OnStar called 911.  "They said I turned grey and my eyes went up into my head," Zoeckler said.  "They even called the family because they didn't think I was going to make it at that point."
     
Unconscious, Zoeckler was rushed to the emergency room.  As bad as the accident was, he did not have a scratch on him and no bones were broken.  The only injuries he suffered were when the EMT's put a tube down his throat to help him breath.  "I couldn't believe it because I don't remember a thing, even to this day I don't remember anything," said Zoeckler.
    
Today, Zoeckler is recovering at Faxton Hospital from those post accident injuries. He says the tubes caused damage in his mouth, which spread to his ears originally causing him to lose his balance when he walked. He says those are small prices to pay after hearing what he went through.  "I feel blessed, I feel God is not done with me yet," Zoeckler said.
    
Ironically, Zoeckler's son is a high-ranking executive for OnStar.     
    
Zoeckler will finish rehab, and is expected to leave the hospital Saturday, just over two weeks after the crash.