My friend witnessed my car crash 22 yrs before we met!

My name is Jim. I am 54. On January 17th 2011, I was sat, idly chatting to one of my golfing buddies, Phil, who I have only known since 1998, reminiscing about the fact that it was 35 years to the day, that I was involved in a bad car crash in Prestbury, Cheshire. I started to describe the crash to Phil , and told him how 4 lads, who happened to be walking up the dark country road from the nearby Pub , witnessed the crash and helped pull me and my girlfriend from the wreck. Phil then chipped in and finished the story... He was one of the 4 lads! and described correctly how he was later summonsed to Court to act as a witness for the prosecution against the drunken driver who hit us. Phil lived in Bramhall, I lived in Cheadle Hulme, and Prestbury is 8 miles away from where we both lived.. Although Phil has lived all over the UK and even for a spell in Africa, he has returned in the last 15 years to his roots - he now lives back in Bramhall, I live in Lymm ( 21 miles away ), so Geographically perhaps the odds of us meeting reduce, slightly. But to be in the same place, at the same time, at such a momentous event, and then to be randomly introduced 22 years later, and for it take a further 13 years for us to make the connection? How coincidental is that?!