The CLOSEST you've ever been to death, without actually getting injured?

[Roofstone]

Now bear with me here, I did get a few minor injuries, then some serious. When I was ten, quite a few years ago, I was walking home from school. Playing snake on my brand new top modern non-color cellphone.


Winter, so it was icy on the roads as I crossed em. I just sort off, wandered off over the road, not noticing the car to my right, it swiftly banged into me and threw me over it and onto the roof, off which I rolled down from.

Now, I would've gotten off without injuries, had only a few scrapes so far the doctor said. But sadly, the man inside the car, thinking he had hit me. Put the car in reverse to back OFF of me.. Sadly this didnt work, as the bump he felt wasnt infact him coming off me, it was him backing onto me.. Off where he swiftly parked and got out..

I heard he stood there for a just five seconds or so, though it was enough to pressure my stomach enough to make eating properly, impossible for quite some time..

I dont remember anymore after that, but I had to spend quite a few days in hospital.. Getting food trough a tube isnt very fullfilling you know.. : /

Sorry I dont have any without injuries..

 

[Jark212]

-Nearly fell off the side of several different steep cliffs that would have been lethal, around 6-7 times. (It was more of a "if the traction on my shoes/snowshoes gives way now, I'll die" type situation to be fair)
-Nearly ran off a 2-lane highway by a drunk driver once.
-Almost in head-on collision with what I assume was a sleepy driver on the same 2-lane highway.

I've had a helluva life so far, and it's sure as hell not going to end anytime soon...

 

[Nuuu]

Well i havent had any, but my brother and mother have.

When my brother was little, he fell into the pool before he can swim, luckily my mom was there and jumped in, then again, we were only there because she was...

When my mother was little, she was leaning on the car door while her mother was driving on a highway. The door was unlocked and it opened, causing he to fall out of the car. A bus managed to slam the brakes and stop inches from her face.

 

[Wondermint13]

Some kids were tipping rocks off a bridge.. big ones.

I'm walking under it and about 3 paces after I reached the other side, one fucking great rock shatters behind me.
I shouted something from the darkest depths of hell at them that they didnt even want to stick around to laugh or gloat like kids always f***ing do..

It was only after I got to my Ex's when I realised.. 'yeh, that could have f***ing killed me.

 

[Ami Ostman]

I was in the car with my friend and I told him at the last second to turn left instead of right. He didn't look before he went to turn and a semi-truck sped past us an inch in front of the front bumper of his car. Usually he drives very fast, but the fact that this was the one time he was driving slowly saved our lives. If he had been just a little farther into the road we would have been T-boned by a semi going about 50 mph.

We put the car in reverse and after he he made sure no one was coming, we turned right. We were both deathly calm until I started laughing. We laughed all the way back to my house.

 

[Tulks]

Had a few vehicular near-misses over the years, but those aside the two most memorable moments were during my year in Oz.
First one was during a riverside barbie in Loxton, when the branches of a couple of adjacent gum trees fell directly on top of our group. Rolled out of the way just in time to avoid a potentially fatal head injury.
Second was while walking around Kata Tjuta, a collection of rock formations in the middle of the Red (pretty much next-door to Uluru). We did a little rock-hopping to get some interesting pictures, and I ended up clinging to the side of a cliff a couple of hundred metres up.

Fun times.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Falling off the roof of my house.

I landed on a bush, and had a cut scratches from branches. I could've sworn I was gonna die though.

 

[DanDeFool]

I was less than 10 years old, and I went speeding through an intersection on my bicycle (not wearing a helmet, naturally) near my house without bothering to check for cars. I almost got t-boned by a minivan. The van's driver tracked me down afterwards and called my parents. Man, were they ever pissed.

But yeah, a split second later and I would probably have died horribly.

 

[yanipheonu]

Once ran through a stop sign with my bike and nearly got hit by a bus. Had I not been going extremely fast at the time, I would have been hit.

Course I never did that again.

 

[WorldCritic]

When I was younger, someone I knew was shooting targets in a field. He let me fire a couple shotgun rounds, and then I went up to the targets to see what they looked like after being shot at. Some little brat though who was also there grabbed the reloaded shotgun and fired another round before I could get a sfae distance away. I managed to jump out of the way right before he pulled the trigger, but obviously I was pissed off at the little shit.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Without being injured? that narrows it down quite a bit, but alright.

This all happened in 2008, but that sjust one month of one year.

April 10 - Anniversary of my gf's death. Go to the cemetery she's buried at to spend the day (like I always do, though this year I wont be able to), go to walk home, fall in empty grave (wasnt paying attention) Storm comes and plot starts to fill. (Not really life threatening, but if I had fell and passed out I could have drowned I guess).

April 13th (A friday that year) - Through what can only be described as an act of god, lightning strikes just behind where I had stepped.

April 29th - Death pulls out all the stops. Driving (Illegally, but meh, the cops in my town dont have enough time to chase me) and an SUV almost t-bones me on the driver's side. I swerve, hits the back, sends me spinning and I stall out near train tracks. Open the door (not paying attention, go to step out, then remembers hat so bends to get it, train rips off door). Safely get out on the otherside of the car, car almost hits me. Flip over the hood, car rips off that door. Sit and sigh, figuring I need to just stay put, and someone drives into the back, knocking me off hood of car and the car over me, spend 40 minutes under it while the tow truck comes to get it off. Finally go home, think i'm safe, Carbon Monoxide leak.

You wanna talk about luck.

 

[similar.squirrel]

A tractor with one of those spike-attachments used for conveying bales of silage almost backed into a car I was in. Said spike came within an inch of the glass, at the exact location where my head was.
Oh, and a few climbing incidents.

 

[Sethzard]

Well, I guess it was probably my illnesses. I was quite a sick child and had a couple of growths in my brain. Does that count?
If not then probably a car which swerved out of control and mounted the pavement I was walking on.

 

[StellarViking]

I left my house.

No, really. I stepped outside of my apartment in Virginia once to see some guy running down the street, heard a couple gunshots, and saw another guy running by. It was only later when police arrived that I realized a bullet grazed the wall very near the doorway.

 

[Grayjack]

Choking on a piece of spaghetti.

My story was obviously the most hardcore.

 

[Darius Brogan]

Without being injured? that narrows it down quite a bit, but alright.

This all happened in 2008, but that sjust one month of one year.

April 10 - Anniversary of my gf's death. Go to the cemetery she's buried at to spend the day (like I always do, though this year I wont be able to), go to walk home, fall in empty grave (wasnt paying attention) Storm comes and plot starts to fill. (Not really life threatening, but if I had fell and passed out I could have drowned I guess).

April 13th (A friday that year) - Through what can only be described as an act of god, lightning strikes just behind where I had stepped.

April 29th - Death pulls out all the stops. Driving (Illegally, but meh, the cops in my town dont have enough time to chase me) and an SUV almost t-bones me on the driver's side. I swerve, hits the back, sends me spinning and I stall out near train tracks. Open the door (not paying attention, go to step out, then remembers hat so bends to get it, train rips off door). Safely get out on the otherside of the car, car almost hits me. Flip over the hood, car rips off that door. Sit and sigh, figuring I need to just stay put, and someone drives into the back, knocking me off hood of car and the car over me, spend 40 minutes under it while the tow truck comes to get it off. Finally go home, think i'm safe, Carbon Monoxide leak.

You wanna talk about luck.

Like I said, Blind Fucking Crazy One In A Quadrillion Chance Luck. i've been plagued by near-misses my whole life. Hell, I even had one incident where being bitten by a poisonous Wolf Spider saved my life.

I was climbing a big-ass tree when I was about 7 or so, and I obviously pissed of the Resident Lichen Spider, he climbed onto my left calf and bit... Hard. I fell out of the tree, landed, not only straight on my head, but also on a rather large root sticking out of the ground. I looked up, rubbing my head, and figured out that, if he hadn't bitten he when he did, I'd have been brains first into an electrical wire.

Fun stuff, I tell ya.

 

[BoogieManFL]

A few close calls while driving, but the most significant thing happened in the ocean.

When I was around 14 or so, I was swimming in the ocean at a Florida beach. I am a strong swimmer, but I swam out a little farther than I should have. I hit what must have been rip current a good 200ft from shore. It was moving so fast the sand was churning and enclosing around my feet like quicksand. Each wave that went over my head was quickly followed by a stiff lurching of the water and sand under me, pulling me back and down. Each time I got pulled quite a bit father away from the shore. I kept lunging and swimming as hard as I could but it wasn't enough. It suddenly hit me how exhausted I had become fighting the current and I was having trouble getting air since the waves were coming in so close together I had to lunge upward to break the surface and only got a short gasp before getting pulled down again.

It hit home how bad a situation I was in I told myself "No, this isn't going to happen." I relaxed for moment and took as much air in as I could, and waited for the next wave to get close and I jumped with it at an angle towards the shore, then I swam down and dug my hands and feet into the sand and almost crawled along the bottom then I broke up, got another breath and did the same thing a few more times, I can't remember how many or how long this all took. Eventually I go far enough to the side I didn't feel the tugging and was able to rest a moment then I finally made it back to shore and collapsed more tired than I had ever been before or since. The beach wasn't all that busy and it didn't look seem anyone even noticed, my family included. Everyone was just talking this family we didn't see much at the time.. I was just quiet about it and just thought it over again and again thinking how close that came to being very bad. I still think about it from time to time 16 years later.

It made me a better person though. More aware, more careful and I analyze situations before getting into them.

 

[OliverTwist72]

I have died, I am now a zombie. Take me to your brains.

 

[A Weary Exile]

I was driving home from visiting my parents on an exceptionally rainy day and I tried to turn off the freeway, I must've hit a puddle or something because the car spun out and I almost went into the bushes. I think I did two full rotations before the car finally stopped.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I went to the beach with some friends when a tornado touched down. We took cover under a pier with a towel to prevent the sand being kicked up from skinning us, and watched it go out to sea where it turned into a water spout. It was pretty awesome to see it.