Share your near-death experiences!

[Fixated]

My friends and I were joyriding (read: speeding through winding roads in the woods) the other night, discussing horror movies and the scariest possible thing that could happen at that moment. As we rounded a bend a deer bolted out and lept OVER the hood of the car as we braked, leaving a scratch across the car. We sat there for a few minutes, shaking and laughing at our luck at the same time. It was terrifying. Had we been going full speed the deer would have smashed through the windshield. Anyone have any better ones (shouldn't be too hard to do better than that)?

[Love Bug]

1. America had a near-death experience 12/20/2000

and we're still in it. :-(

[toddzilla]

2. in my younger days..

when i was into racing and building very fast cars (0-60 in 4 seconds) i managed to get up on two wheels at close to 100 mph.. i calmed down seriously after that :crazy:

i also had a driveshaft come out at about 80mph, it put a huge dent in the floorboard and scared the hell out of me..

frankly, i'm suprised i lived through my car racing days.. doing 140mph in a 30 year old car w/ drum brakes .


:wow:

[populistmom]

3. When I had one of my children...

My 3rd (I have 4), due to a complication, my blood pressure shot up during my c-section from low normal to 220/150. I thought my head was going to explode (could have easily had a stroke from it). Felt disconnected from my body for just a brief moment, but remember making this almost conscious choice to go back. It's very weird and hard to explain. Almost like in an instant I had a choice to continue living. No tunnels or anything like that, just this sort of next level thing.

[Corgigal]

4. My husband had a near death experience

BUT what happened to me was very weird. I was waiting in the ER waiting area and a man with beautiful white hair came in. I remember him because he was wearing a leather jacket and this was Florida in July. He seemed to walk up to several people and walked over to my father-in-law and told him I hope your son will be okay.

Finally got word that my hubby was going to live. Shortly after that I saw the man with the leather jacket leave and head the opposite way of the parking lot. I always thought that was my husband's angel.

[liberalitch]

5. Car Accident, possible angel

I was in a car accident about 8 years ago.... drunk ran a red light and ka-boom!
The next day when I went to tow yard to get my stereo and lawn chair out of the car, I walked up and siad I needed stuff from the car... the attendant asked me how the driver was... when i told him I was the driver he called everyone out of the shop to look at me... like I had risen from the dead.

Also, after the impact I sat there stunned for a minute then realized that I was in terrible pain.... A asian man leaned in the window and said "I know you're hurting but try to back your car up and get out" I managed to back and got out three seconds before the other car partially exploded. when I looked for the guy and asked for him later people told me that NO PERSON walked up to my car and spoke to me.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

6. I had a similar experience

Not really very dramatic, also, but it happened about 10 years ago, I think we were in Gettysburgh, PA, and my husband and I were walking down a street. For some reason I stopped very briefly to look in a hardware store window even though there was nothing interesting in it. He stopped too.

Then we continued and were about to cross a narrow alley when a car shot out of it going really fast, just as we were about to step off the curb. We were both shocked and felt that if I hadn't stopped to look at that window we might both have been killed or badly injured.

[HEyHEY]

7. Flamingyouth tried to poach me in a white wine sauce...

Other than that, I was shot in the chest once with a Pellet gun. Had it not been on an angle it would have gone straight into my sternum.

[hobbes159]

8. I can probably think of several motor-vehicle related

experiences (I live in Massachusetts, see here for an idea of what that's like).

[Nikia]

9. I've had many near accidents

I've almost been hit by fork lifts, had my fingers smashed, been run over by a train, been hit by cars, hit by lightening, slid off the road, and have had incredibly high fevers and had a life threatening allergic reaction. Maybe, I exaggerate the dangers that I have faced. Maybe, I am being constantly saved from death or severe injury. Maybe, I should learn to be more careful.

[maxanne]

10. hit a moose

in May. You and your friends were luck, Fixated.

I was too. I didn't get hurt, and neither did the moose. The Toyota was a fatality, however.

[Skittles]

11. my little car was crushed between mack truck and a van

I was unconscious and trapped for over an hour.

[LewisJackson]

12. Hooray for Dark Comedy

While this isn't bragging, necessarily, after reading through all of these, I do seem to wonder how I am still breathing.

1.)Nov. 1986- I can't remember what happened, but when I was four, I was trying to balance myself on a stack of grandpa's encyclopedias. Fall, Brick Fireplace, Forehead. I still have the scar from that one.

2.)Sept. 1987- More youthful indiscretion. I'm running full steam into my bedroom, trip and nail my head on the nightstand. About a centimeter to the left, and it would've nailed my temple.

3.)June 1990- I was seven at this point, and I was very stupid/suicidal? I made my own noose and actually hung myself in it. Hung for about 25 seconds before I finally got myself out of it. Had a ring around my neck for about 3 weeks.

4.)Feb. 1991- Our bus stop driveway had a downhill slope, and had frozen over the night before and looked pretty fun to surf down. Face plant. Ow. Broken tooth. Couple of scars that were later erased due to an even more massive scar. Ironic, no?

5.)April 1994- One of those filmstrip projectors fell on my head and I got a concussion out of it. For some reason, this one had a spike on the side, and from what I was told by a friend of mine afterwards, had it landed about an inch to the left, it probably would've stuck in my brain. Sweet.

Intermission.....

6.)Sept 1, 1999- I fell off a friend's car and got another major concussion- just don't ask. Apparently, I was unconscious for about 16 hours.

7.)Sept. 22, 2002- CAR ACCIDENT! WHOO! So, my friend John and I were driving home from Perkins and this van decides it doesn't like us. Smashes into us pretty bad. Friend's Taurus was totaled, as was the van, from what the police report photos showed. John had to have 20 staples in his head, I have two major scars- nearly went blind in my left eye, too. Also was comatose, according to the hospital records, which I think is kind of cool. Oh, yeah....concussion on this one, too.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.....No pun intended.
Lewis