Have you ever had a narrow escape from an accident?

I nearly got hit by a bus many years back and was missed by inches. When I was crossing the road it was clear but when I was half way across, the bus just came out of no where. A bus is not something that you would miss at the best of times and I swear the driver speeded up when he seen me It was a close call but then I could have been jaywalking at the time, which is a hobby of mine

well living in mumbai it would have happened to any and everyone who has walked on the streets.the cars move around in a haphazard manner with no regard for people walking on the streets. even on the narrowest of lanes vehicles try to overtake each other. i have come close many a times to be hit by a car as there was quite some traffic where i used to go for classes.

I have an incident in my experiences of life till now as well. It was way back in 1996(I was 8 then), when we used to live in Guwahati. I can't remember the whole of it, but it somehow happened that I jumped on the road and the person coming on a bike in the same line was my elder brother himself. Seeing me coming in the way like that he turned the handle in such a way that the bike went to my left, one of the mirrors brushing and scratching my left knee, he fell off to my right, his right leg hit my on my forehead and because of the grass on the side he was very much unhurt but for a few scratches as well.

It's hard to put moments like that out of your mind isn't it? I almost got knocked over while crossing a road in Italy on a zebra crossing! The vehicle actually hit my knee and braked centimetres away from me! I ended up in a shocked state and a badly bruised right knee! Another time while driving; another car cut in front of me and I had to quickly swerve into the next lane, fortunately there were no cars coming; I had to move so fast that I lost control of the vehicle and ended up facing in the opposite direction inches from a lamppost! If I had hit the lamppost or had there been traffic on the road, I dread to think what the result would have been! Thankfully it wasn't our time to be hurt or killed sanuanu! Thank God!

I had a simular near miss. I was walking to work one day. It was good because I have half an our walk away. I crossed at traffic lights for pedestrians as these light was situation outside a public pool. I had the right of way. A green light to walk across the road. Next thing I knew as I was half way in the first lane, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a car changed lanes and drove straight though the red light. The car could have stopped at the red light to avoid the near miss. But if the driver didn't see me, I could have been in an accident. Because of the speed that the car was travelling, I don't know where I would have been. But my guess would have been, I could have been hospital for a while.

Hello sanu.. I too came metro without any previous exposure to heavy traffic roads, but fortunately, the road around north campus Delhi is not like other roads of Delhi. However, I encountered an accident in 2007. I was traveling from Bhopal to Indore by a sleeper bus. I think at midnight that accident occurred. That was a head-on collision with a truck. I was hit by a rod or something like that on my forehead, too much bleading, but yet, I was OK. The after scene was horrific with seven people lost their lives including the driver. I was lucky so were my friends.

I've had a few. One time I was in France and crossing a street behind a car and suddenly he almost backed into me!

Hi, sanuanu! Yes, I have had a narrow escape from an accident many of times when I am in the car. A driver could be making a last minute signal where the brakes were slammed down in the car. And there were times when a car would pull out in front of us to turn or to go straight in traffic. I can't stand when people would make these last minute and abrupt turns. It could cause an accident. And when I was about 12, I was swimming in the school's pool and I went past five feet deep, and I could not swim period. This was the deepest part of the water for me. So, I almost drowned. And my uncle's nephew had to save me because I could not stay above the water for so long. I felt my body going under gradually. I could not hold myself up any longer. I was so scared, I thought that I was going to die. I was panicking. I was so terrified! And one time, a lady was driving her white car, and she hit me, I was on my ten speed bike. I was about 6 or 7 then. I thought that I was going to die. Because someone told me that if I go to sleep that night after being in the car accident, that I would die. My head was busted and I had to get stitches. This was the most scary experience that I have ever been through in my life!

Yes I have had a narrow escape from an accident. In fact more than once, more than I care to count. Especially from times spent overseas. I have been in snow storms, wind storms, tidal waves, earthquakes, landslides, rock slides, and flash floods. Thank God I am still here.

Hello sanu, yes, once I too had a narrow escape. I was heading towards the city and I was on a bike. My friend was the pillion rider. A truck was going ahead of us and seeing the snail motion of the truck I wanted to overtake but to my horror just at that moment another truck was coming from the opposite direction. In the action got into a narrow path between the two truck and a slight wrong movement we would go into the rear wheels. Bur somehow managed to overtake and going just a bit ahead stopped the bike and I saw my heart ponding. I still shiver when I recall that moment.

I have had a few misses in my lifetime. I have been driving a car here in my country for a long time. I have had a few acidents, no one hurt but I have plenty of near misses. it happens when I simply do not see the other motorist or driver on the road, I turn into triaffic to quick or was not paying attnetion to what I was doing at the time. to avoid the acident I simply sreved to avoid contact with the other car.

I can't remember a lot but I can only remember what accidents have happened to me. You know it could be very serious, I can say I was really lucky to escape from any badly injuries. I was stumbled over by myself and crashed to a corner on my desk in my primary school, my nose was badly hit and bruised, it was still swollen like an eggs even after 3 weeks, I was so lucky that the corner didn't hit my eyes, it was very close to my eyes, the bridge in between eyes. I thought I have a narrow escape to become a blind. Another one was when I was walking back home an afternoon on one Saturday, a man walked toward me and pointed his fingers to my eyes, absolutely he wanted to hurt my eyeballs with his fingers, I turned my head so quickly and he can only beat my face a little bit, my grandma shouted at the man and run away swiftly. Another Saturday, I saw a girl was crying with red eyes, seems like some blood tearing down her face, and a man was push down by two men who was very angry and scold the man kissed the ground. The girl's eyes balls was really hurt by the man, I only got hit on my face but the girl was so poor to be attacked by a stranger. The last one was I escaping from the toxic gas released after I mixed different solvent liquid in my bathroom, I inhaled some and felt painful in my lungs, I was so scared to tell my parents these, I thought I would die in the night, as I have difficulties to breathe, but I turned out to be fine next morning. I fancied science so much so I thought it would be funny to mix all different liquid to observe its changes.

Let me remember it first... Uuum... I don't think so, and let it be away from that "narrows". But if i counter the same experiences like you said... Man... I will think and said "God, thank you very much to make me standing away for a few inches from that vehicles". That day you should said too before you think about your parents.

Yes.. I've had three. The first was with my mother driving and we were going 50mph behind a flatbed truck that was hauling a variety of tires. They were not secured in anyway. One of the tires flew off the truck, there was traffic incoming in the other lane.. we ended up having to land in the ditch to avoid getting creamed by the tire. The second is that we were coming up a blind hill thats blind on BOTH sides of the slope. At the very top there is a crossroads. We needed to turn right. We slowed down, put on the blinker (I need to mention this car is a standard not automatic) and just begun to turn right when a semi peaked over the hill. My cousin was behind us in traffic however, and had not slowed down at all... in order to avoid getting rear ended and slammed into the semi, again took the ditch. And the last one was a very similar incident, but tis the only one that I was driving. It was February and the road was still icy in spots... and a semi swerved into my lane. I was driving a Jimmy and ended up landing a snow bank that was just as deep as the hood is from the ground.. Yes, the ditch is my friend!

it did happen to me once when i was in my teenage,though i lived in the city,i was not so familiar with the roads and when i tried to cross the road a car came screeching to a halt,inches from me.

Yes I had escaped once when we were on a trip to visit mathura by road. We were traveling in a car . It was 5:30pm time the light was clear and we were going on a road on the left side on the right side of us there was a tractor coming suddenly another tractor tried to overtake it and came in front of us and our was bang in with it. Luckily no one of us got injured this did happened because the driver of the tractor was 14 yrs old boy.

hello sanu .. a narrow escape just happened last month when i was driving and another car was coming from the opposite side. the road was a very narrow one and it was a sharp turn , so i couldn't see him coming from the other side and he didnt even bother to use the horn. luckily i used the horn and he just realised i wss in front and both of us kicked the brakes hard... if it was not for the immeadiate reaction.. both of our cars would have fallen into the pits on either sides. but i have met with another accident before. that was during my childhood , not a major one though .

Yes. I was driving too fast that time and the vehicle in front of me suddenly stopped. If I would break my car, I would still certainly hit that other car, so I made a very sudden turn to avoid that car. It was only about a 4 inches gap between my car and the other car. And to make matters worst, there were also other cars, to my left and right side, so I sped my car a little bit more to get thru the other sides without hitting anybody, or anything. Cheers!

Well I didn't escape an accident but my daughter did as a child. She and her sister were walking to school and a dog started coming after her and she ran into the street and narrowly escaped getting hit by a bus. The bus driver I think from what my daughters said thought he was going to have heart attack. Of course I didn't learn about this till she was grown. The bigger sister said something like we can't tell mommy she will get so upset. The secrets kids keep! LOL

i have never had a narrow accident ,i dont want it