MikeR

Strange question l know, but l am interested to hear what people consider is their closest brush with death,

Mike

Harris.

Sitting im my gf's xr2 in traffic on the a127 doing 0mph ,then being hit straight up the arse by a sierra doing 70mph .............It hurt

MikeR

I will bet that hurt, seat belts on l am sure?

Mike

Harris.

No seatbelts ,if i had it on id be dead !!! plus she had just filled it up with petrol and as the car flipped the tank burst and burnt me

Lamb Souvla

Nearly drowned in Hastings when I was about 12, warning flag went up 2 mins after going in the water.
Hospital counted 340 odd cuts/grazes after being washed up on the rocks, I was saved by a lifeguard and my Dad, who both nearly died rescuing me.

NUTTIN RILLA

I`ve had loads but laughed in the face of it, whats for you wont go by you?

They seem to come and go for me from day to day, wether im on my R6, in my van or in my missus puma i find my self dicing with death.


The thing is if you dwel on it it will make you worse.


Only time will tell i take it???

Harris.

Here you go, close enough for you ?????

It is a complete car just bent a little , only had it 4 days too












Fucking drink driving BITCH

bluescortcossie

in keeping with the XR2 theme

mine was having a rear tyre blowout at 90 sending me into a massive broadside and down into a ditch , as the font end dug in the bottom of the ditch the car started to barrel roll and as it started to go over i braced myself by pushing on the roof which popped out the sunroof and i ended up half in the car / half out through the sunroof with my head between the roof and ground for the remaining 7 or 8 rolls !

again no seatbelt on

it hurt a lot !

Harris.

Hats off to them , and your very lucky

madsi

lots but cant get any closer than dying twice then getting revived in theatre as i did when got taken out on 1 of my old motorbikes by a stupid cunt on wrong side of road on a blind corner

Rax

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davemark . . . 4kn hell,bit of a shunt that !!

Psycho Warren

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Ouch that had to hurt!!! Lucky only you in car

Lamb Souvla

In the words of the latest advert for "the IT crowd"

"I am beholden to them"

Harris.

Me and my gf was in it ,i was sitting in the passenger seat

Charlie Chalk

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*touch wood* I've not had nothing like that happen to me.

I did have a bike accident that could of ended badly

RWD_cossie_wil

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Had a pretty close one on the back of an RAF Hercules, we hit severe wind rotors in the Falklands just after we took off, aircraft was all over the place, captin screaming down the headsets doesn't inspire confidence , missed the floor by about 50 feet as the downdraft was so severe we lost 700 feet in about 10 secs, a combination of luck and skill saved the day, really did think our numbers were up that day ....Quite sobering..

And had a fucking close one a few months ago, I was in Kandahar airbase, Afghanistan. We were out servicing one of the Hercs, doing engine ground runs after a burner nozzle change. Finished the job, and drove back in to the office. As we walked in, all we heard was a "WHOOOOOOOOOSH" (as the rocket flew over our heads!) then "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" We all hit the deck as we are trained to do, waited for the attack to stop. The Taliban fire 81mm rockets into us , they have a lethal blast radius of about 90 meters (basically anything inside that area gets shredded!). Well, we went out to check for any unexploded ordanance, and damage to anything, and the aircraft we had been working on had been hit doing a fair bit of damage to it...... 5 mins earlier we had been stood there. Scary shit

dangerousbrian

arseing about in my first car..doing 110mph on motorway and lost back end...blacked out during being pinballed against side barriers..had to climb out of the windows as the doors were jammed shut from front and back impact..had my mate, brother and his mate in...regret it deeply putting them in that position...feel for the lad i was racing aswell having to watch it happen in front of him..learned my lesson tho, never drive like that again..never had any fear before then

NUTTIN RILLA

10 million stern wouldnt get me to do what you do mate, i couldnt emagine nutters firing shit a me without notice just like that, i`d loose my mind and drive a tank right at them, unload on them then run out with an m16 shouting bring it on ya shite bag, where are yi now, then get killed straight of by a land mine or a sniper

BigErn

Being the passanger in an S1 sliding towards the corner of a brick wall at about 60mph, I remember the feeling of the corner of the wall ramming into my leg and seeing the dash shatter in about 5 bits. We had to kick the front screen out and climb out that way. car was bent like a banana. Fortunately we were both ok, I had a sore leg and side from the wall, but it could have been very nasty.


Racing a VFR 1000 in my Corsa Turbo, foot welded to the floor, behind him about a cars length away in 6th around 160 (by the speedo) along a straight road. I know the road well but had never pushed on that hard along it, the road dips pretty sharply then shortly after again into a very slight right hander. As we both come to the first dip we both took off, completely airbourne, then as the bike landed he had a massive tank slapper and I landed nose first behind him and the back end bounced and skipped about from side to side. I vividly remember pointing at both walls while fighting to straighten up again before the next dip and bend. I kept my foot in as I figured lifting off would only cause me to die. Got it straight, round the bend and the bike throttled on hard again so I followed suit and we continiued playing for another 10 minutes or so. That could have ended so very very horribly and I always remember it clearly as I drive that road and now slow down a lot at that point if Im pressing on a bit.

Coldo

Was climbing a fence at my aunts about 10 years ago, it was a metal one, with decorative spikes on top, im climbing up, my foot slips and i get a spike right in my chest.

I couldnt get the strength in my arms or legs to lift myself off, and my little cousin - who was just 6 year old at the time ran to get my mum and aunt, by the time they got to me i managed to get off but was bleeding pretty heavily, went to hospital and got stitched up, they said it was close to going through my lung, which could have killed me, but it never so i guess my time wasn't up?

Must have been on the spike less than 20secs? or so and it felt like fucking ages of panic trying to get myself off.


Had a few close calls in cars, have a mate who we always joke about being either brave or stupid - somethings he does are brave, others are stupid, needless to say i can recall a couple of times in his cars when i've shit myself. But nothing too bad.

dangerousbrian

forgot bout the s1 ern... remember trying to convince ppl i was only doing 30 or sumat! lol.. altho it was all in slow motion

andy130

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was out in dads van one night thought this would be great time to see what speed it doesgot up to 80mph started to lost it after that then hit a tree then landed on its side only had the van two weeks. i was very lucky had no seatbelt on van was a write off

few months back when i had a fiesta xr2i was flying in it car went around the road missed a wall about 3 foot

NUTTIN RILLA

[quote=andy130;3756420]was out in dads van one night thought this would be great time to see what speed it doesgot up to 80mph started to lost it after that then hit a tree then landed on its side only had the van two weeks. i was very lucky had no seatbelt on van was a write off

few months back when i had a fiesta xr2i was flying in it car went around the road missed a wall about 3 foot[/quote]



You must have been flying really low to miss a wall by 3 feet mate, make sure your higher next time, i dont want an xr2i just missing me next time its flying by

andy130

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[quote=NUTTIN RILLA;3756429]sorry ment to say (was doing 70mph in it) but yeah will stay higher next time lol

Psycho Warren

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FUCK!! how did you live??? The passenger side looks fucked!!

Diamonds.

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errrm a few

plane crash we was flying back from isle of wight in our mates private plane our other mate who thought he was good took over for a bit and dropped the landing gear too early and some how ripped it off at the front. the place we was landing had no proper runway and was grass with like a netting over it. when we landed with no front the propellers dug in and flipped us over but we all go out that was fun day.

Ealing bomb was fun we walked just into the pub right near it as the fucking thing went off blew all glass over us and wondering wtf has just happened we was all ok just a few glass cuts lucky we walking in not out as would of been face into it.

few car crashes over the years

cancer

something else but my mind is shite these days

bbspolo

Ditto make few car crashes and a nasty 2 year fight with cancer!
however the only time i have thought i am going 2 die was lossing it big time on my dh bike coming down the alps! lol

xr-stu

when i was about 3 or 4 on my first trip to the beach, we stopped i got out the car and ran for the water, immediately got knocked down and dragged out, got washed onto some rocks in about 5 feet of water and luckily mnaged to hang on til my dad come for me. my parents went nuts and i didnt go in the sea for years!

about 6 years ago doing well into triple figures riding pillion on a triumph daytona along an A road between stoke on trent and buxton we hit two bumps in the road and my feet we dislodged from footpegs, as i was holding onto the handle behind me, i fell backwards, my feet were level with my stepdads head when he realised what was going on and threw the brakes on almost putting us both over the handle bars. i wouldve died if it wernt for his quick reactions.

a couple of years ago, on my brother bike, he was looking over to his mate to his left as we approached a left hand bend at around 60, we went over the white line and he didnt realise what was happening until the wheels were about 6" paralell to the curb. flung to bike down into the bend hard and we were lucky enough not to bin it. the other side of the curb was a 3 foot drop peppered with rocks.

then on hallowee, again on my brothers bike, pulling out of a carpark the bikes rear tyre all of a sudden locked up. after a quick look it was obvious three of the 4 bolts holding the rear sprocket to the whel had sheared off, 2 were missing and the 3rd had worked its way out and jamed itself between the wheel and swing arm. had one of the three bolts done that moments before or after when we were doing god know what speed, we wouldve been off the bike and were wearing nothing but open faced helmets and lycra halloween costumes.


oh and i nearly punch some gangster in the face on the doors who im told wouldve come and shot me luckily a doorman who knows him was there and pulled me away

there are others to but i cba to type em out as theyre not that exciting.


think i ned to stay away from motorbikes though

Benni

When I was 14 I was in School and I felt awful. I told my teacher I felt poorly and he told me I was fine. I kept falling in and out on consciousness and they called me an ambulance. The goons employed my School enemy to keep my Concious and he kept slapping me in the face. Anyway, the Ambulance came and asked me had I been taking any drugs, to which I said no. My parents were called in and they asked them if I had taken any drugs, they said no too. I was sent home and spent a few days in bed and I was back at School.

I soon felt terrible again and I decided to go home; as I got through the door I felt the room spinning and nobody was in. Was such an awful feeling. I felt as though the television was chasing me around the room. My mum soon came in and I told her I felt bad and she called me an Ambulance. When they came, they asked me had I taken any drugs, and I said no. They told my mum I had taken something, and she disagreed. They told her they didn't think I should be taken to hospital, and should sleep it off. My mum told them I wasn't on anything, and ordered I am taken to hospital. By now I am more or less out of it, but I am standing up and stuff, although I do not remember it. On the way to the Hospital, I stopped breathing. As I arrived at the Hospital, my heart stopped. My mum said they took a pair of Scissors and ripped my T-Shirt up the middle, and before she knew it their was a crowd of doctors and nurses around me.

Turns out I had Encephalitis; which is water on the brain, and my Body was closing down. If my mum had not demanded I go to the hospital, my chances of being here typing this now would be very, very slim.

I spent a long time in Intensive care, and when I recovered the school had Raised nearly a Ł500 for me, and I recieved a Ł30 Mobile phone. I was robbed, blind. Anyway, since then I have suffered from horrendous seizures. Thankfully, I am on a tablet which keeps them under control.

Benni.

Benni

So you nearly drowned, all because you can't swim?

Benni.

Ginge !

when i was a kid we was running accross some roofs, jumping buildings and one of em was a buss garage glass fibre roof, about 50 foot high and me and a mate fell though it,,,,,,, landed on a staircase to the office and fell down the stairs instead of the 50 foot drop

oh and almost hit by a train playing on train tracks as a kid too crossing infront of a tunnel, that scared the fuck out of me too

Ginge !

oh also fell though a window, looked up and seen a bit of glass above, i moved and it came crashing down,,,, was just like in some film

theres prob more that i cant remember but nithing THAT bad tbh

jjr2k8

i was lying on my front on the hard shoulder of the m27 behind the cones with my hand down some duct trying to get shit out of it, a van must have swerved and came through the cones at some speed and swerved back into the motorway, wasnt too close to me but close enough, i shit myself complained and got a pay rise

pacwest

I clipped a car doing 186mph on my gixxer 1000. I was heading over a very large bridge and this dodge neon.... well, I swiftly removed the drivers mirror at a 120mph difference between the barrier and the car (about 3 feet wide at 1/4 the speed of sound).

Obviously lived. Purchased new underwear later in the day.

RichieST

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Sounds pretty scary mate! Where are you based? I'm an aircraft engineer at Lyneham working on the hercules

hicost

I spent 3.5 weeks in intensive care with three days of

"he may not make it"

You learn allot about life when it’s suspended in front of you.

That was five years ago now and I still look for more bhp!!

Red16

Some horrendous accidents above mind, you lot should play the lottery

A patch of subsidence in the middle of a left hand bend had me destroy a fence and my right forearm a couple of years ago Thankfully im now alright, but my life flashed before my eyes as the bars shook from side to side even with my Sprint steering damper

jacko

iv actualy had quite a few as a kid i fell from the top of a 3 story building and just broke me arm was prety bad but didnt die

Me and a mate got hit by a mondeo the day the p plate came out cas tyhe car had just been picked up it hit us both at 60 to70 he died i got a graze

i came of an r1 at just over 100 on a dual carrage way and was un hurt then
my car cashes the cos was prety bad got a bruse size of a 5p on me arm that was it




aint got any pic,s but i crashed my hartga bmw into a parked car flat out in 4th and bent the bm in half aint got any pics of it but was way worse than the cos i got thrown through a window and just got a 3 inch cut on me leg


w

Mike Rainbird

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Big car crash when I was 19. Upside down in a field for 3/4 of an hour before being finally cut out by the fire brigade. In intensive car for a few days with collapsed lung, fractured skull, dislocated elbow and numerous cuts and bruises. They had told my parents that if my lung didn't reinflate, then they didn't know how long I would have. Luckily it reinflated of it's own accord within 24 hours, and I awoke to find my Mum sitting at the foot of the hospital bed a day after the accident (unconscious for over 16 hours). I couldn't figure out why the fuck my Mum was in my bedroom watching me sleep . I don't remember anything about the accident at all and when they told me my car had "landed on me", I thought I had been working on it, and the jack had failed and fallen on me .

When they clarified what had happened, all I kept asking was my best mate okay? I had lost so much of my memory at the time, that I couldn't remember that I had dropped him off a few hours before the accident and was on my way to see my girl-friend .

Was an X1/9 and luckily I it was a beautiful day, so I had the targa roof off. If it had been in place, then I wouldn't be here today, as the fractured skull was received from landing in a freshly ploughed field, and the rear roof line where the targa panel clips to was below my head level as I was trapped upside down . So if the panel had been in place, then it would have been this that would have impacted my head instead of the soft earth . Some say this is the reason I am the way I am .

Took over a year for me to have full extension of my elbow, but I was out of the hospital within 8 days (hated the place, all I my body wanted to do was sleep 18 hours a day to recover, and the nurses kept waking me up ), but off work for 6 weeks.

From then on, I have always treated life as when your number's up, its up and there is nothing you can do about it. That day was just not my time to go (despite my best efforts ), so rather than making me more cautious, I think that is what turned me into an adrenaline junky .