whats the luckiest escape you've ever had?

The closest I've come to checking out was driving home one night with the g/f in the car..

Local county road, doing 60, dark and a bit of drizzle coming down we were coming up to a shallow sweeping bend. I could see the headlights of an oncoming vehicle so I dipped mine while entering the corner...next thing i see in front of me, in my dipped headlights so not very far in front, due to the glare of the oncoming vehicle, was the drivers door a silver car!

The g/f screams and I just jammed the brakes (anti-lock thankfully) and turned that sterring wheel like I've never turned one before! (Thankfully due to years of computer playing & racing games i have v.good reflexes :p)

Well, it was one of those fantastic moments as chemicals flood the brain and everything happened in slow motion...we shot across the road and all I could hear was bang..crash...smash...scrape as the side of the car was grinding against the front of the bmw...

Problem was, now all I could see was a screen full of headlights as we had turned into the oncoming vehicle...so with a huge yank on the wheel (still all in slo-mo) i turned back left....more bang...crash....scraping as we hit the other front side of the bmw and god knows how, missed the oncoming van.

I was as calm as anything through it all, just slowly pulled up, handbrake & hazards on, turned the ignition off and walked back the the bmw...g/f was sat rigid in the passanger seat with fingers dug into the dash! :D

Basically the old guy in the bmw had pulled out of his yard (which was lit up) and so had not turned his headlights on, and had pulled sideways into the road while trying to look left/right and had gone too far..

All over in seconds, but felt like eternity with everything go in such slo-mo...was awesome!

And with all the adrenaline and shock the post near death experience sex with g/f when we got back was amazing! :D
 
Doing a show. Fighting with sword and bucklers. Other guy does a stupid moves and drives his sword through my nose, tearing it open. It was about 2cm away from going through my eye socket.
 
Hang Gliding in France. Had a good flight in Chamonix, then decided to have an evening flight off a very shallow wooden ramp with no headwind. Fully stalled off the end of the ramp, fell 100ft nd then hit the 70 degree down slope at speed. My glider disintegrated, and I finally came to a stop metres from hitting a huge felled tree end on. Amazingly totally unscathed. My mate who was still at the take off ramp turned totally white, as he was sure I was dead.
 
a couple of weeks ago, my dad was helping me tile my kitchen. he did the section above the gas cooker. we had finished for the day and he left, i went upstairs and got changed ready to go out at about 5pm. i went to go out at about 6 and thought i'd just take a look at the tiling before i did. good job i did as my dad had leant against the cooker and turned the gas on so if i hadn't have checked and noticed and turned the gas off, i'd have come home at about 2am in a drunken state, flicked the light on and possibly gone BOOM.
 
A couple of years back, I was in the wood, and turned my head very fast. Right behind me though was a sharp branch sticking out and it cut me quite deep about half a centimetre above my eye. There was quite a lot of blood, and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to still have both eyes! I still have a deep scar above my eye today.
 
Swinging on a washing line as you do, one end was tied to a cast iron drain pipe. I pulled the pipe off the wall and the T junction hit me, crushing my right hand and chopping my ring finger down the middle of the bone as well as across. Many hours in surgery fixed that but was lucky the T junction didn't hit me on the head as it could quite possibly have killed me.
 
Went to watch a rally in mid Wales a few years back in the middle of Summer, therefore it was quite dusty and the cars were leaving dust clouds behind which hung around for ages. I was walking up a twisty section of the track in-between cars because either side of the track there was a steep slope.

One car goes past and I'm just before a blind corner but I decide as I can't hear another car anyway it's safe enough to keep walking. Wrong! As I start walking again a car comes flying around the corner, I can't see it because of the dust and I couldn't hear it before hand. Must've been the quietest car in the field!

I literally had a split second to jump out of the way or he would've hit me. Must've missed me by a foot at most and that's no exaggeration. I'm walking on the slopes either side next time.
 
Well, back in the day I survived a nuclear bomb test... In a fridge.

But seriously... When younger I had a habit of checking if things were on, with my finger! Not just touching wires :rolleyes: but things like irons, kettles.... I was an idiot child :(

Now I just do stupid things while drunk. Like turning a somersault into a paddling pool, or diving headfirst into a pool of foam... I'm now an idiot student :D
 
Worst one I can remember was when it was all the craze for "yoof" to lob things of motorway bridges, I had just got my V6 Rover 75 - my first big car, when I saw some little ****** on a bridge push something off the rail, I swerved, overcooked it and span onto the hard shoulder past the front of a truck, I felt like a **** until I saw half a breeze block on the fastlane get anhialated by a passing van, it had hit the floor a few feet further down the motorway than my skid marks - a year and a half later I still watch all motorway bridges as I pass them !
 
Fell down a mountain when i was 10, about 50ft down a rocky slope. I was unconscious before i realized what was happening, but when i came round i was on a small ledge, literally a foot away from a sheer drop of about 100ft onto yet more loose rocks. Got off with a few small head injuries and a serrated left tibia with a gash the length of my lower leg (although the scar only covers half of it now, go figure ;) ). To this day i don't believe i've broken any bones :)
 
Came off my bike today on a roundabout - no idea exactly what happened, but it looks like my front axle came loose. Front wheel locked up and I went straight over the bars and almost got run over by a land rover :(
 
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Drilled into a mains cable - not nice. Heart didn't stop or anything, but did fall out of consciousness.

T-boned a car when on my bike. Fortunately, I jumped off the bike just as I noticed the car pulled out in front of me, which meant I slid into the door of the car and not over the bonnet.

Fell down a cliff - landed on a ledge, with a 1000ft precipice below.
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No close shaves whilst skydiving?

Mate was thrashing his Astra GTE round a bend and it went on 2 wheels, I probably would have died if it had turned over, luckily went back on 4 wheels and hit a curb writing his car off but no injuries.
 
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Playing on a rope swing as a kid with about a 20ft drop off a bank. Mate is pushing me faster than normal and I pass out so lose grip. I come round, face down and between my legs is the serrated jaggies of a broken tree stump about 24 inches across. If I'd fallen on that I'd have been multiply impaled. I did however break my wrist.

As a toddler in Cyprus, I got stuck between a boat and the jetty.

On a positive note, I saved someone whilst caving as a kid from falling to their doom.

ChronicTank> Seriously, if you got the bus you'd have been in that explosion? Lucky bugger!
 
When I was around three years old, a neighbour kid apparantly convinced me it would a fun idea to go play on the nearby train tracks. I say nearby, it was actually several streets, a field and a climb down a short hill to reach the tracks. Apparantly my parents were phoned by the police to come and collect me after a diesel locamotive driver spotted me on the tracks.

The lucky part was that he only spotted me because he had been forced to stop at a signal stop around 100 yards or so from where I was playing. If the signal hadnt been down at the time he would have ploughed through me and turned me into a red splat.

To this day I am half convinced that kid was trying to kill me. He was apparantly a bit of an odd ball.
 
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