62 People Reveal Terrifying Moments That Nearly Cost Them Their Lives—and How They Miraculously Survived
A friend asked for a ride on my motorcycle so I let him wear the spare helmet and took him for seafood at Neptune’s Net in Malibu. Some of the nearby beach houses have driveways that lead directly onto the highway. So while we were on the return trip back toward Santa Monica an SUV pulls onto my lane.
There was absolutely no time to brake.
As a precaution against this kind of thing I always watch the wheels of parked vehicles for movement and I always rest a thumb on the horn. So I see trouble brewing, honk as soon as the other vehicle starts to move, and change lanes.
The driver of that SUV neither saw me coming nor responded to the horn. The only reason we didn’t have a t-bone collision was because of that lane change. I skirted around it with about a foot and a half to spare.
It wasn’t the closest call I’ve ever had but it was the onlyone where I was responsible for another person. I would have known to leap off the seat just before impact but the passenger wouldn’t. It turned out later he didn’t even realize we’d nearly been in an accident–probably because his head was turned to enjoy the ocean view.
The laws of physics made that swerve especially difficult because I’m a slender woman; the passenger weighed forty pounds more than me.
Not me, but my dad decided to stay for one more drink at a bar after work back in 1989. if he left before that last drink, he would have been on the old Bay Bridge, very close if not under the section that collapsed, during the 1989 Loma Prietta earthquake.
I crossed the road behind a tram not seeing the track beside it going the other direction the oncoming tram missed me by inches.
Literally last week I was crossing the street with my sister and we saw this huge lifted truck with a big trailer connected with a tractor on the back. He was stopped and checking his left for a few seconds and we were waiting and finally decided to start walking, but the second we started walking he slammed on his gas and turned right and never once looked in our direction. If we had started walking 1 second sooner we would’ve been flat.
Was pulling out of the driveway when I realized I left my phone in the kitchen, so I went in to grab it. on my way there was a terrible car accident two cars in front of me, definitely would have been me if I hadnt left my phone.
Driving on a country road at night with a mate who just got his license, anyways doing 80km/h and all the lights went out, it was nearly pitch black and he slams on the brakes, car stops, lights come back on and we were greeted with a “sharp bend” sign and a sheer cliff 50m further on down the road with a 30m drop off into the ocean.
Hell, that was scary and a tense ride home.
I used to work on a farm for a doctor that had antelopes on the property and one of my jobs was to feed them, my third day on the job was my first time actually doing it since my coworkers did it before. I went out there with the feed and started to pour it out so that they could eat, my supervisor shouts from the other side of the fence not to turn my back to the male antelope and I couldn’t hear him so the first thing I did was turn my back on the male antelope to ask my supervisor what he said, almost immediately I’d realized what I had done and turned back around to see the antelope about to skewer me. I jumped out of the way and he ripped the shirt off of my back.
The other month while I was walking the dog (Dobby, Cockapoo, cute as hell) I collapsed and ended up in the road
The only reason I didn’t get run over was a bus was stopping to let a dude off and he and the driver helped me get up and out of the road.
I spent a few days on the cardiac ward, I now have a heart monitor inserted into my chest, I’ve lost my driving licence and haven’t worked in three months.
Turns out I have low blood pressure that then occasionally plummets rather than any heart issues so now I’m on medication to up my BP. I should be able to go back to work next week and with the doctors help get my licence back.
It’s all been very emotional.
More like “another foot over”, but I was at work walking with some clients (3 kids around 8-9) and 2 other staff down the street. It was raining, and the roads were slick. This car coming our direction fast loses control on the wet pavement, skids in our direction onto the sidewalk we are walking on, slides about a foot past us (close enough to get our pant legs wet, but not our jackets, because the water never got high enough due to its launch point being so close to us), slammed into a tree behind us, bounced off the tree and kept driving several hundred yards down the road before the guy brought the car to a halt.
The driver was fine somehow, and none of us got hurt, but it was scary as hell and definitely had me thinking I could’ve died that day.
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