17 Extremely Lucky People Share How They Escaped Death

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Jun 13, 2018 11:00 AM EDT

People can get very lucky in an otherwise unfortunate situation.

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    Text - hthompson98 483 points 1 day ago My maths teacher wouldnt open the window in our very stuffy classroom. This induced a asthma attack and she denied me going to the bathroom because she thought I was faking. 3 hours later I came round from an asthma attack, being told I was hanging by a thread.
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    Text - JamesandtheGiantAss 5.2k points 1 day ago edited 13 hours ago I was on my motorcycle as a six-car accident happened AROUND ME. I came around a curve on the interstate as one car hit the concert barrier and spun out into four lanes of traffic. Cars were spinning and rolling around me, and I was barely even dodging, it was like they were dodging me. I pulled off and as I was coming to a stop a semi came sliding sideways through the whole mess. I hit the throttle again and it smashed into th
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    Text - grrrjordan 5.6k points 1 day ago edited 1 day ago Was in a bad wreck with an 18 wheeler when I was 16. I was on the passenger side in the back seat and the car we were in got crushed when the trailor jack knifed and squished us between the truck and trailer. None of the first responders could believe nobody in our car was killed or even really hurt. Then in 2015 I was pistol whipped in an armed robbery. It felt like the whole side of my head caved in when he hit me. I
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    Text - Ashlante 5.9k points 1 day ago edited 11 hours ago My parents didn't believe I was in agonizing pain, so I went back to partying, next day the pain was back, stood my ground, went to the hospital. Doctor finally comes to inform me I have a heart infection, wouldn't have needed to come in the next day.
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    Text - hiphiprenee 412 points 1 day ago I was driving on the highway in New England after a particularly fierce snow storm which quickly turned everything to ice. Some jackass didn't clear off the top of their SUV. A chunk of ice the size of a small person came sailing off the top of their car and into my windshield. Luckily, the ice hit high and hit the windshield the top frame of my car. So the ice didn't go THROUGH the windshield. I was covered head to toe in glass and immediately started cry
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    Text - oneiros562 2.0k points 1 day ago I as born somewhat premature and my small intestine hadn't fully hollowed out so I had to be airlifted to another hospital and have that section cut out. Still have a huge scar on my stomach from that. Then in second grade I got chicken pox and ended up having viral encephalitis as a complication. One thing I remember was a woman visiting me in the hospital and I asked her name, and it was the same as my mom's name so I told her that. Turns out it was my m
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    Text - grecianformula69 1.8k points 1 day ago My wife went on a weekend away with friends. We lived in a little old wood house with a gas heater built into the floor of the hallway. It was late spring, and the heater was kept turned off by pushing the thermostat way down. 59F was as low as it went. I went out with some friends and came home late, went to sleep. A cold front blew in and at around 5am the temperature dropped to 58F in the house. We kept a throw rug over the floor grate in the hall
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    Text - Indeface 1.5k points 1 day ago A big plane hit the building I was in
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    Text - stop_being_ugly 900 points 1 day ago First two times I was rushed to the ER anaphylactic shock. I swear if my mom wasn't beside the hospital bed crying the 1st time I would have let go. Third time I was on a plane landing at the airport, but clearly flies around it a couple times. The captain comes on the speakers and informed us the wheels may not be locked/deployed. The landing way was lined all sorts of fire/EMS trucks. No problem with the landing, everyone cheered when we touched down
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    Text - hosstradamus 1.2k points 1 day ago Parted ways with my motorcycle at 80 mph
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    Text - matty80 7.6k points 1 day ago Was walking along not paying atterntion like an idiot, and stepped out in front of a double-decker bus. The guy behind me grabbed the hood of my sweater and yanked me back, but I was close enough that the bus still smacked into and broke my 'leading' foot. If he hadn't been there, or I wasn't wearing a hoodie, or I was a bit heavier, that would have been my head.
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    Text - Raunchy_Potato 1.4k points 1 day ago I was about 8 or 9, I think. My thinking was that I wanted to see if any good books had just been returned, so I could request to check them out. Back then I was a really tiny kid, to the point where I actually couldn't reach up to the book return slot. So I hoisted myself up on the little shelf they had in front of it, turned my head sideways, and slid it through the hole. I turned my head back right way up, and lost my grip on the ledge. I was left d
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    Text - 1 day ago ghiscari 4.4k points When I was 8, I very nearly drowned in a swimming pool in France. I was playing on the divider between the deep and shallow areas -which was effectively a row of large boulders and slipped between two of them, getting my leg firmly stuck (and badly cut up in the process). I was trapped, hanging upside down in the water, and unable to twist my leg at all. The only sign that anything was happening on the surface was the very tip of my foot sticking out, mostly
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    Text - ixtlu 4.7k points 1 day ago I had an accident while moving a big antique mirror by myself at home. It broke and half of it fell onto my neck. It severed my jugular vein and I came within a few minutes of bleeding to death. The paramedic who saved me said I lost about 2 litres of blood (a little over 4 pints) and I was extremely lucky to survive.
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    Text - Kommunal_prosess 1.2k points 1 day ago edited 1 day ago I was hired to cut a hole through a concrete wall once, needless to say that is very dirty work. I put on some old torn up clothes that I was about to throw away anyway, and pretty soon I was sweating like a pig and getting all covered in concrete dust. My hair and beard literally looked like it hadn't been washed for a year, all stiff and chunky. Then I got the demolition hammer stuck, and trying to get it out it rotated and smashed
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    Text - MattDamonsTaco 1.2k points 1 day ago edited 1 day ago Two different ways: 1. I had bought a 1973 Ford F100 as a project car. It ran and drove well enough, so I drove it back home, 100 miles. Along a relatively curvy portion of of US-287 (two lanes in my state), the steering went out. Both me and oncoming traffic was travelling about 70mph and I couldn't control the direction of my vehicle. An oncoming semi was able to narrowly miss slamming into me head on. Narrowly missed me. I ended up
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    Text - 2. I was managing an 8,000ac hobby ranch for some very rich people. This particular day, I was doing some pasture reclamation by doing a prescribed fire. I am not a wildland firefighter, but it was an incredibly calm day, there were firebreaks on either side of the "ditch" I was burning (the ditch was actually about 0.5 miles wide), and, I had a 500 gallon water wagon behind the ranch pickup. Things were burning slowly and low to the ground, which was great, exactly what I wanted. I drove
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    Text - Sick__muse 958 points 1 day ago1.edited 22 hours ago I told this story once before in another thread, but when I was 17 I was trying to get home from my after school job in a nasty snow storm. At the time I lived far out in the country and was going down some pretty treacherous roads. I took a turn a little too sharp and ended up in a ditch. I couldn't get out no matter how hard I tried and I knew I couldn't stay there. My folks were out of town and my cell had no reception, no one would
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    Text - I was getting closer to the church, I thought about sprinting but I was afraid that would only make their predatory instincts kick in and they'd come after me. I started making aggressive noises at them, growling and snarling and using my whistle. Hoping maybe it would scare them off, it didn't. I knew they were getting braver all the time as their numbers grew. Then I remembered the road flares in my pocket. I quickly set one off and held it out towards them as I continued to whistle and
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