It's the number of ways you could define "near miss" that's crucial here.
So, yeah.

Some of the near misses of which I've heard over the years have not, I'd say, been all that near at all.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:22, 1 reply)

I agree
I travelled to and from work in London by public transport that day* so I could technically claim it was a "near miss" but of course it was actually a very distant miss.

I'm tired of people embellishing weak stories of a coincidental interaction with something that was later involved in a disaster. However, given their apparent appreciation of statistics, they're probably also big fans of the Lottery.

*I travelled home a lot later than usual on the 7th July as I did the same as lots of other Londoners that day: met friends in a pub, shared concerns and sympathies and then got incredibly drunk.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:29, closed)