Well, there was this one night around 10 years ago - we were driving a minivan in middle of winter night with bunch of friends. We were going to a Hapkido, but managed to get some extra action before arrival..

The road was straight and started to go up hill and the driver stepped on the accelerator to get on top of it. Apparently the road had also totally frozen. Our driver lost the control "just like that" and the minivan turned sharply left and we drove over the oncoming lane and crashed the road side ditch. When everything had stopped, the car was on its right side, rear to the direction we were suppose to go - so nice 180 flip + on the side. Also we hit ditch full of snow - just some 5 meters before and ahead would have been some very nasty looking rocks (outcrops?), so we managed to land on real sweet spot.

At the time i was sitting behind - without seatbelt, as the minivan didnt have those behind. I was actually sitting on the floor and stretching my legs, so i didnt see a thing. Just something like this:

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKK!!!!!!" from the drivers girl friend, then the sharp "turn" and things got upside down. Luckily enough i had time to put myself to sort of crash with hands covering head, but there wasnt really time to "think" anything.

Nobody got hurt. We were pretty damn lucky.

Glad you didn't have any injury

I had a tyre burst on the highway once, but the car handled admirably when I applied the brake, pulling to the side of the road with no further incident... It's hard to imagine the same initial cause can have such wildly different consequences!

Oh, you came from the other direction to us then. We actually take the same route you probably took from Gent when we drive to the UK.

Not your classic story driven Near death experience, but I had a similar to the OP less than two years ago. Driving home from a vacation (7 Hour trip) in the middle of the a night, roads were slick, truck hydroplaned, and before I could react my truck was headed backwards down the interstate at 65MPH+. Then my truck did a 360, came off the driver's side tires and I was headed for an embankment.
I thought best case I was waking up in the hospital. Lucky the embankment came up right as my truck came off the driver's side tires as the passenger side hit the embankment. Tore the right side of my truck up pretty good and had to put the truck in four wheel drive to get it back on the highway (thankfully empty), but everything was still working. I never lost consciousness, air bag did not deploy, and I drove home the remaining normally four hours in five and a half hours (Nerves on edge the whole way home). $3300USD damage to my truck just on the passenger side...broken window, step-bar torn off, door bent up and wouldn't open, and scratches down the side. New door, new step bar, new window and paint job and truck is back to new.

Well I had more than one of these actually...

My first one was being in a coma for 2 weeks because the hospital OD'ed me on Ritalin.

The second one I was passed out drunk in the middle of a street after downing half a gallon of vodka and a car WOULD have ran me over if my mother didn't come up at that moment and stop the car, the tire of the car actually touched my head.

The third one was riding my bike home from school and the passenger of a car waved for me to cross but the driver practically ran me over, driving my handle bars right into my lungs and knocking the air out of me...

Did it affect my life? Nope.

I know I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, and everyone knows how much I treasure having P1na in this forum, but I gotta be honest and say that after seeing this picture from the accident report, I fail to see how the blame can be placed on anyone but him.

it's shit like this that makes me deathly afraid of roads and cars and anything that goes on them that isn't fully armored.

A good friend of mine had to drop twice from top a building to believe its bad for his health. The second time around he got disabled.

The accident report must have been a fun read. I wonder how the forensics report of a pineapple would be.

Thank god you got that being a joke. In all seriousness I can't imagine the trauma of anything like that and I would never mean any disrespect toward your experience.

That accident was clearly the fault of the power cables. Surely they extended down and snatched up the car on purpose! It's the only explanation!

I wonder where this guy went. =P

Lucky you. My show is aired at the worst possible time. It's riddled with commercial breaks. The script is written by an inept bunch of people whenever they can be bothered, and usually they seem to either do nothing or just wing it. None of my friends tune in regularly, and some of them haven't bothered in a long time. Even the exciting cliffhanger moments are pretty uncinematic, like the one a couple of weeks ago, when a bus ran a red light at a million miles an hour and nearly spread me across a few dozen metres of tarmac.

E: I also faceplanted off a bike once. It ruined my face for a week or so (healed pretty fast, must be said), but I guess I could have broken my neck or brained myself or something.