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Accidents happen all the time, and often we walk away miraculously uninjured. What has been your closest call with avoiding serious harm in an accident?

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[info]orbitaldiamonds Writer's Block: Close Call

One of the scariest experiences of my LIFE.

This was back in high school. I always had stuff up on my walls. For awhile I'd have a wall covered dresser to ceiling with the art that you get on the back
 
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[info]chriswatkins Writer's Block: Close Call
In 1997, I was walking along the side of the Schwazhorn, just across from the Eiger. The ground I thought I was walking on turned out to be a big overhanging cornice, which let go when I was halfway a
 
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[info]quainteccentric Writer's Block: Close Call

Well, I've had a couple of close calls and strangely enough, most of them involve cars. Usually, I barely avoid being hit by one as I cross the road because I'm off in my own world or I'm too involved
 
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[info]sarahleighton Writer's Block: Close Call


Me and my mate who will stay unnamed. where in his car going down the M1 in Chester going to the real astate. we where just chilling listening to music and talking and he desided because i was a nervo
 
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[info]lynnbell2002 Writer's Block: Close Call
My closest accident that caused no injury other than some sore muscles and bruises for both my DH & I happened Friday night of Memorial day weekend 22 yrs ago on I-45 between Madisonville and Cent
 
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[info]anya_urameshi Writer's Block: Close Call
Well, I haven't been in very many near death situations, but one time I was climbing a tree in my parents front yard and fell out. This wouldn't have been so bad in itself except that they live on a h
 
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[info]arden_snow Writer's Block: Close Call

I have two stories to tell. One is my own and one is my friend's.

When I was fifteen I nearly fell out of a seventh story window. This isn't much of a story because I don't feel like going into detai
 
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[info]duece77 Writer's Block: Close Call
ok, i got two answers for this one:

my first close call was when i was in the second grade. my mom, my dad, my dog, and myself were all staying at my gradmothers house for the weekend at some point dur
 
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[info]brinneee Writer's Block: Close Call
Ha Ha! I have had many close calls in my 18 years. Probably too many. Probably my closest call, (and most vivid) had to have been two summers ago when I LUCKILY shattered the bones in my right ankle.
 
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[info]jay_67 Writer's Block: Close Call
A long time ago, I was riding in the car with my mom. We came up on this curve, and as we were turning my door came open, and stupidly I wasn't wearing any shoes so my foot was being dragged across th
 
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[info]pearl_illusions Writer's Block: Close Call

This incident happen when I was living in tampa,fl and still going to high school, which was about a little over 17 yrs ago.

I was walking to school and it was a beautiful day and I happen to be coming

 
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[info]hagtristania Writer's Block: Close Call
Well, sometime I fell from bike and broke the Jaw. I was purple from my neck till my waist. And I walked after that, but couldn't talk.
 
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[info]minnabird Writer's Block: Close Call
So I like to sit under this tree after school while waiting for my dad to pick me up. Or I used to, I guess. It is a very shady tree and a very convenient one. Why convenient? It's on t
 
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[info]un_named_beast Writer's Block: Close Call
My friend had a huge RV that burned to the ground... I was there not an hour before it happened and I was really tired.... I could have been sleeping there when it happened.

That's the first thing that
 
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[info]iambadnews Writer's Block: Close Call
In exactly 8 days it will be 2 years since my car accident. I can still remember what was going on, the conversations, the starbucks, the road, the noises, everything. I used to be so naive. When I f
 
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[info]playinthewaves Writer's Block: Close Call
Probably the time I almost broke my arm when I was swimming. I was in a race at the end of practice, and my coach neglected to tell us she took out the backstroke flags. My competition broke the rules
 
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[info]jazlinda Writer's Block: Close Call
Let Me Paint A Picture For You.
Football
Co-Ed Football
Mud
Rain
Cleets
My Face
You know were I'm Going.
We (meaning my friends and I) were playing some football
We all slid in the mud and my friends cl
 
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[info]beth_ashke Writer's Block: Close Call
My mother was driving and I was in the front seat - a Lady pulled her car out through seven lanes of traffic to try and get across the four-way intersection.  She had a red light, while we h
 
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[info]acacia_123 Writer's Block: Close Call
when i was two or three my mother left me in the tub with my older brother watching me while she got clothes for me. when she turned to walk back to the bathroom my brother was standing right behind h
 
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[info]whispershadow44 Writer's Block: Close Call



That would be may of year 12 in sixth form; when I was involved in a car accident. I was crossing the road near a blind bend and didn't notice the car coming round the corner until I was in the middle

 
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[info]yresim Writer's Block: Close Call

I've been in more accidents than I can count or keep track of. But most of them have been very minor.

The closest I ever came to being killed, I think, was when my car was T-boned by another vehicle
 
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[info]alusiphus Fate and Adrenaline
I never really got into much trouble throughout my life. There was one incident, though. I was young, and living in Crescent City. It was a sunny day, and clouds could be seen slowly sailing thr
 
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[info]silent_chelsea Writer's Block: Close Call

once on the way home from a day at six flags w/ my family i nearly got my hand cut off.

i was sitting in the back of the car, behind the driver's seat. i had my left arm out the window, just feeling t
 
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[info]shuphablath Writer's Block: Close Call
I nearly drowned when I was going down a slide with my much more heavy cousin at 9 years old long ago. He simply weighed so much more than me I kept spinning underwater due to the momentum.&
 

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