There has been a few but a couple come to mind...
On my way to a hotel for work, up a dual carriageway in my 3.2l v6 Audi I was about 100 yards behind a tarpaulin covered HGV in lane 1.
I was in no rush. I noticed a scaffolding board come off the top of the HGV and spin like a buzz saw towards me.
Luckily I was awake and stepped on the power. The board just cleared the car and I heard it hit the road behind me. I am convinced that if I had not closed the distance the board would have hit my windscreen with devastating consequences.
I was visiting a foundry and having the "tour". I was following a director who moments before had stepped in to the foundry and all sort of alarms went off and a hot snake of bright orange iron started to whip around the building.
Workers were diving to the floor and the guy behind me tugged on my jacket so hard it got ripped.
I got a heat rash from it. A further step in and I would have been dead.
H&S closed down the place 6 months later.
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Lucky Escapes new
Lucky Escapes new
