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These photos were (appropriately) named lucky bastard 1 & 2. You'll see why...
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Teenage girls' lucky escape after driving car off 75ft cliff
Both air bags deployed and all four doors swung open as the car hit the rocky surface. Miraculously, neither girl was seriously hurt and both of them clambered out of the car but were unable to get a mobile phone signal to call for help. Stranded in pitch darkness, the pals had no choice but to clamber back up the cliff until they reached a ledge 30ft from the top where they got a signal and dialled 999.
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Living on the edge
9th April 2008
Sandra Uttley, who was out walking her dog, said: "I spotted the car and I noticed it still had its engine running. I was worried there could be someone sat in the car as the area has been the site of some suicides in the past. I tried to climb down but quickly realised it wasn't a good idea so I came back and called the police. It looked like the car may have just been left to roll down to where it ended up."
The car had been stolen from Hinderwell, near Whitby, on March 11 and it's unclear whether the thieves drove it down the steep bank or pushed it hoping it would fall off the edge. The dramatic picture was captured by holidaymaker Tom Pattinson. Police recovered the car and have been carrying out forensic tests. No arrests have been made over the theft.
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Lorry crashes feet from campers
The lorry landed just two feet from one of the men's tents
The driver, 66, from Mauchline in Ayrshire, received serious injuries. He is being treated at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. The shocked fishermen, who have not been named, helped the injured man from his cab before realising just how close they had come to being hit by the lorry. It had been heading west to the ferry port at Stranraer when the accident a happened.
The fishermen had camped overnight on the banks of the loch which is popular for coarse fishing, boating and water-skiing. Steve Bean, from the Lochview Motel and Restaurant about 300 yards from the scene of the accident, said: "The men come here fishing regularly but I only know them by their first name. It's an absolute miracle that they survived this. If it hadn't been for the trees they would have been crushed to death. The lorry was ready for turning over but it went down through the trees. They were so badly shocked by the crash when they realised that they could have been killed, that they went back home. They were up for the May Bank Holiday weekend but it could have turned into a real tragedy. One of them was able to joke about it after. He told me that they wanted up early but they didn't want an early call like that. They told me they were going back home to get drunk after surviving that."
A police officer at the scene said: "They are certainly three lucky men. If it hadn't been for the trees then it would have gone right over their tent. They will never be luckier than this. It happened at around 4am and they could easily have been killed." Local farmer Clark Lamont added: "I've never seen anything like it. It appears they had three tents and they moved one of the tents at night or it would have been right in the path of the lorry. It was only the trees that saved them."
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The moment a speedboat flew through the air and crashed into a golf course bunker
13 May 2008
French tourists Claude Bieth and Catherine Guillet were enjoying a round of golf when the boat crashed. Mr Bieth told the Daily Record: "The boat seemed to go in slow motion and came to a halt in the bunker. The motor kept going but it was stuck fast."
Clyde Coastguard launched a major search operation after the boat crashed around 3pm yesterday. A military helicopter was scrambled, a lifeboat was launched and a request for help was issued to all ships in the area. The boat's skipper, who was not injured, was located a short time later. Calum Murray, Clyde Coastguard's watch manager, said: "We do deal with a number of beached vessels, but I don't think that we have ever had one which landed in a golf course bunker." A club spokeswoman said: "Thankfully no one was hurt."
Loch Lomond Golf Club is one of the most prestigious golf courses in Scotland. Golfer Colin Montgomerie chose the location for his wedding last month to partner Gaynor Knowles. The club will host the Scottish Open in July.
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The miracle window cleaner who fell 47 storeys from New York skyscraper
10th June 2008
Mr Moreno, of Linden, New Jersey, stunned doctors when he spoke his first words on Christmas Day, after coming out of a medically induced coma. 'I did what?' the dad-of-three asked nurses as he regained consciousness for the first time. Now the Ecuadorian-born worker has returned to his home after months of physiotherapy, which he must undergo three times a week.
Dr Philip S Barie, chief of critical care at the New York hospital that treated Mr Moreno, said: 'Above ten storeys, most of the time we never see the patients because they usually go to the morgue. This is right up there with those anecdotes of people falling out of airplanes and surviving.'
The wreckage of the tractor at the side of the rail line at Weston Rhyn
Tractor driver has lucky escape after being hit by train
By Wil Longbottom
20th July 2008
A spokesman for the ambulance service confirmed that the train, which was carrying 17 passengers, was not derailed by the crash. Ambulance Officer Cliff Medlicott, who attended the incident, said the tractor had suffered a 'huge' amount of damage and was moved along the track a short distance by the train.
Mr Medlicott, of West Midlands Ambulance Service, said: 'There were a total of 17 passengers, the train driver and a guard on the train, which was travelling from Oswestry to Wrexham. By good fortune, a doctor from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was on board and assisted ambulance crews. Thankfully the only other injury was to a female passenger who was treated at the scene for minor neck pain. This had the potential to be a much more serious incident - thankfully it wasn't.'
Two ambulances, four paramedic officers, a rapid response vehicle and the County Air Ambulance from Cosford, Shropshire, were jointly sent to the scene by the West Midlands and Welsh Ambulance Services.
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Driver somersaults on to rail track, smashes way out with golf clubs and calls 999 to prevent train crash
By Lucy Thornton
21/07/2008
When Adam, 22, realised the doors were stuck he thought of his partner Michelle, 27, who he had just kissed goodbye, and their baby due in October. Then "the adrenaline kicked in" and he grabbed a golf club from the back of the car and smashed a window. Once free he called 999 and the trains were stopped.
Adam, a Pizza Hut boss, recalled losing control of his car as he was concerned about another vehicle coming up fast behind him. He said: "I rolled over and over and the windscreen smashed. The car landed on its roof. I could see train tracks as gravel flew into my eyes. I thought, 'This is it'. I'd kissed Michelle goodbye 10 minutes earlier. I thought I'dnever see her again. I knew I had to get out. If a train came I would be a goner. I couldn't get out of the front windscreen as the car was nose down on to the track."
"Both front doors were jammed so I crawled into the boot. As I struggled with the boot lock I saw a guy approach. He was just a few feet away. It was the driver who had been following me. I banged and yelled on the rear window and he saw me. Then he ran off. He knew I couldn't get out but he still ran away. I thought, 'That's it. I'm dead. He's run off because a train's coming'. "
"I grabbed a golf club that was in the boot and smashed a rear window and crawled out. Luckily I played golf the day before and left the clubs in there. I quickly rang 999 and five minutes later the police were with me and the trains stopped. All this time I wasn't aware of the cuts on my arms and face." Adam, of Bridlington, East Yorks, added: "If I'd been knocked unconscious I'd be dead. Nobody can believe how lucky I've been."
He was on his way to work in Hull when he crashed at the unmanned Carnaby crossing on the Hull to Scarborough line on July 7. Since 2005, 300 drivers have been prosecuted for running the lights - but they were not on when Adam crashed. Police said: "It was fortunate no one was injured."
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He's a lucky bastard for sure, but how did he crash without him knowing what happened?
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A helicopter crash in the Irish republic was caught on CCTV. The attempted take-off in Bettystown, County Meath failed and the chopper came down on a hotel. No one was hurt in the crash. There is no sound on this video.
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Tramp survives being hit by car, train in same day
25/09/2008
WASHINGTON, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - A homeless man from the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado survived being hit by a car and train in the space of seven hours, the local KMGH TV channel said on Thursday.25/09/2008
Robert Evans, 46, was hospitalized late on Wednesday with minor injures after being run over by a hit-and-run driver, but was discharged from hospital five hours later. An hour and a half later police found the man and his bicycle under a railway bridge - he had been hit by a freight train and fallen 10 feet into a creek below. His injuries from his second encounter with a moving force were reported as "slight."
In an addition to his accidents, Evans now faces a fine for crossing railway tracks in an inappropriate place.
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The moment a car launched 100ft through the air and crashed into a church roof
By Allan Hall
26th January 2009
Fireman needed a special lift to reach the 23-year-old trapped 30ft above the ground late on Sunday night. After two hours trapped in the wreckage he was freed, badly hurt but expected to survive his injuries.
Next Sunday's service at the the Church of Our Lady in the East German village of Limbach-Oberfrohna might have to be cancelled while structural safety checks are carried out. The minister, Johannes Schubert, said: 'I think it is a miracle that the young man is alive. The church we can repair; he would have been a different story if God had not been looking out for him. If we are allowed to hold a service on Sunday I think I shall make the theme of it "God moves in mysterious ways, his miracles to perform".'
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A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Justin McCurry
The Guardian,
25 March 2009
That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August. In a barely conceivable course of events, he had twice been perilously close to nuclear ground zero; and both times he had lived. More than 70,000 other residents of Nagasaki were not so lucky.
More than 60 years later, the 93-year-old became the first and only known survivor of both attacks yesterday to win official recognition from Japanese authorities. While other survivors died prematurely from cancer and liver disease caused by their exposure to radiation, Yamaguchi remains in relatively good health apart from near-deafness in one ear and complaints that his legs are "growing weak".
Japanese records show dozens of people experienced the blast in Hiroshima only to be exposed to "residual radiation" in Nagasaki three days later. But Yamaguchi is the first to have been at ground zero when both explosions occurred. According to a newspaper interview Yamaguchi gave on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war, he had spent the conflict designing oil tankers for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a wartime zaibatsu, or conglomerate, whose shipyards dominated the Nagasaki skyline.
After a three-month stint at the firm's yards in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and two colleagues, Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, prepared to return to Nagasaki on 7 August, 1945. The day before, they woke early, collected their belongings and prepared for the train journey west. On the way to the station they became separated after Yamaguchi realised he had left his personal seal in the office. He remembers hearing the Enola Gay circling above, but thought nothing of it: Hiroshima was an important wartime industrial base, and the sound of circling planes had become a fact of life.
Within seconds he had been knocked off his feet by the force of the blast as "Little Boy" detonated 580 metres above central Hiroshima just after 8.15 am, announcing its arrival with a blinding flash followed by a deafening boom. As he stumbled to the train station the next day, Yamaguchi witnessed the destruction and carnage left by the bomber's 13-kiloton payload.
The following day, his burns swathed in bandages, Yamaguchi reported for work in Nagasaki, like Hiroshima an important industrial and military base. At 11.02 on 9 August, as his boss reportedly questioned his sanity for believing that a single bomb could destroy a city the size of Hiroshima, a 25-kiloton plutonium bomb exploded above Nagasaki, throwing Yamaguchi to the ground. He, his wife and baby son survived and spent the following week in a shelter near what was left of their home. His son has since died of cancer aged 59. After the war Yamaguchi worked for the US occupation authorities, became a teacher and eventually returned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Yamaguchi was quoted yesterday by the Mainichi newspaper. "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die," he said. As a registered survivor of the Nagasaki bombing, Yamaguchi has owned a pale violet copy of the Atomic Bomb Victim Health Handbook since 1957, entitling him to monthly allowances, free medical checkups and funeral costs. More than 260,000 others are similarly covered. Yamaguchi's handbook confirmed he was within a three-kilometre radius of ground zero in both cities, but the reference to Hiroshima was deleted when he renewed it at Nagasaki city hall in 1960.
Officials refused to recognise Yamaguchi's special status because, they said, it would not affect his medical and welfare entitlements, but relented after he filed another request earlier this year. "As far as we know, he is the first one to be officially recognised as a survivor of atomic bombings," Toshiro Miyamoto, a Nagasaki city official, told the Associated Press. "It's such an unfortunate case, but it is possible there are more like him."
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I think we've found the World Champion Lucky B*stard. No joke.
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