Here is a list of seven people who, against all odds, survived the most terrible of circumstances and lived to tell about it. Do they have guardian angels watching over them? Maybe they were a cat with nine lives in a previous life. Who knows, but all of these people have one thing in common – they are astonishingly fortunate! Hey, everybody likes a happy ending, right?
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The construction worker who survived a six-foot metal bar straight through his skull
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Miraculously, the rod entered the back of his head and exited right between his eyes. Leite just missed losing his vision in one eye and narrowly escaped having the left side of his body paralyzed. He even claimed to feel no pain when asked in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Leite had the six-foot metal rod removed from his head during the operation and claimed of “few complaints” after the surgery.
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The racing driver who was thrown from a car after hitting a barrier and survived
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In 1990, Donnelly was in Spain competing in the Formula One race on the Jerez circuit. In the blink of an eye, his career was over when his Lotus 102 speared off into the barrier at 140 miles an hour.
Donnelly was thrown from the vehicle with his seat still strapped to his back. His car was totally obliterated – I mean, completely!
Donnelly should not have survived this crash and yet did, but not without suffering any injuries. The racer suffered two broken legs, bruising on his lungs and brain and blood loss. The crash was so violent, it even cracked his crash helmet.
After undergoing intensive care and a long recovery, Martin Donnelly now only walks with a slight limp. Thanks to this terrible crash, there has been improved impact protection on F1 cars to ensure future survivors of accidents like his.
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The skydiver who fell 12,000 feet from the sky and lived
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As shown in the video recorded by the camera in his helmet, when Homes tugs at the ripcord to release his parachute, nothing happens. Frantically realizing his parachute will not open, the skydiver attempts to release his reserve parachute with no luck. With dying now a very real possibility, Holmes waves goodbye to the world and screams a last message into the microphone of his camera. The video ends with the violent thud of the diver hitting the ground before the camera goes black.
You may think that the worst happened, but to his amazement – and ours – Michael Holmes only suffered a punctured lung and a broken ankle from this terrifying fall.
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The jaywalking 14-year old girl who got hit by two cars and survived
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The girl was jaywalking across multiple lanes in a busy intersection even though there was a red signal at the light warning pedestrians not to cross. The youngster did anyway and was hit by a red truck. The impact then threw her in front of a black Cadillac sedan which knocked her further into the road. The girl tried to get up, but collapsed due to leg injuries.
Both cars left the scene, but the driver in the red truck was caught later that day and the driver in the Cadillac sedan was caught the following week. They were charged with vehicular hit and run.
If both of the drivers stuck around, they would not have been charged with anything as the accident was the girl's fault!
The girl was released from the hospital a few days after the incident with leg injuries, but is extremely lucky to be alive.
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The rodeo clown struck by lightning TWICE in the same day
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Wagner was attending the “Rednecks With Paychecks” annual off-road event when clouds started forming in the sky and rain began to fall. Taking cover under a tree while waiting for his friend to use the restroom, he saw lightning hit the very tree he was under. Said Wagner, who also works as a rodeo clown, “I saw a big old flash and I knew I was going down. I knew I was getting electrocuted and thought I was dying.”
Seconds later, a second bolt hit Wagner's rodeo clown boot and shot up along his body. “I felt like my thumb was blown off,” he exclaimed.
Amazingly, Wagner suffered no major injuries and knew just how lucky he was. He later said, “I've been given a second chance. I need to start going to church a lot more.”
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The newspaper delivery man who got stuck in a car windshield after being hit
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Gove's body and bicycle were stuck in the windshield of the moving vehicle. He was conscious the whole time. While in the windshield, Gove turned to the reckless driver and said, “Hello. I'm the guy you hit on the bicycle.” Gove later recalled, “I had no idea at all why he wasn't acknowledging me.”
The driving continued on, running a stop sign and hitting a vehicle. The drunk driver finally acknowledged Gove when he stopped at his own residence and said, “Who are you? What are you doing in the car?”
After righting himself out of the car, Gove was taken to the hospital where he was treated for cuts to the head. Glass was also removed from his eyes.
To date, no word has been heard of how the driver didn't realize he had a man stuck in his windshield or why a 56-year-old was delivering newspapers in the first place.
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Former UK Independence Party Leader survives plane crash while campaigning
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While in the plane toting a banner with “UKIP” from behind, the banner became hooked around the tail of the plane. As a result, Farage and his entourage were in for an imminent crash.
While calmly waiting for the plane to go down, Farage thought about “life and the world.” After impact, gas was spilled everywhere. Said Farage, “We were trapped inside and there was petrol everywhere. I thought, God, we survived the impact and now we're going to burn to death.” Luckily, that didn't happen.
After being treated at the hospital for broken ribs and bruised lungs, Farage was discharged after only two days. He said, “I'm lucky to be alive. I don't know who's looking after me at the moment, but they're doing a frightfully good job.”
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