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Freddie Woo says: Looking back on it, the moment when we left the road because I was trying to get the demister to work, regaining control just in time to miss a tree probably wasn't my finest bit of driving, nor my cleanest pair of pants. Tell us about your lucky escapes

(, Thu 4 Jul 2013, 15:44)
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Karma yet to catch me.
Wrote this 3 years ago and still alive.

I am on borrowed time.
1 was meant to be on Southall train that crashed but rearranged my schedule that day for no apparant reason.
2 was meant to be on the Ladboke Grove train but missed the train that morning due to getting my leg over.
3 saw the beginnings of the 100 car pile up on the M40 j8 in my rear view mirror which I would have been in the centre of had I taken the right hand slip road as normal.
4 was in a plane that left JFK and within a minute had stalled due to turbulance, dropped but recovered. just. (3 months later, it happened again and it crashed into a suburb killing all on board) Was due to not enough gap between flights.
5 was stepping on an escalator as a kid. mum grabbed and stopped me. A step had collapsed and left a hole all the way through to the machinery where I was about to step.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2013, 11:53, 3 replies)
Uncle Albert?

(, Fri 5 Jul 2013, 11:56, closed)
Are you sure that you weren't the cause of 3?

(, Fri 5 Jul 2013, 11:58, closed)
Given that visibility on the M40 was very bad and occured in not only fog but low cloud
and that the cause was standstill traffic due to an accident which then had a horrible domino effect (well, at least proving that people drive like cunts) and given that any driver would be focusing so hard in the awful conditions to not really bother with the rear view mirror in fact looking in the rear view I would deem dangerous) and would also be travelling at a speed that would put "observing" a crash that caused the incident a very moot point indeed.

"I've been here, I've been there, I've been fucking everywhere! So, what."
(, Fri 5 Jul 2013, 12:29, closed)

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