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  • 2015-07-20T10:30:00Z on BBC One
  • 45m
  • 7h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Series presented by Nick Knowles which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters and meets the people who lived to tell the tale.

11 episodes

Season Premiere

2015-07-20T10:30:00Z

2x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

2x01 Episode 1

  • 2015-07-20T10:30:00Z45m

The return of the programme which features footage of serious incidents caught on CCTV and mobile phones. A freak wave crashes into the Irish coast and knocks a woman off a cliff and onto the rocks below, while a girl riding pillion on her boyfriend's motorbike is flung off and slides underneath an oncoming car. Alex Jones presents.

2015-07-21T10:30:00Z

2x02 Episode 2

2x02 Episode 2

  • 2015-07-21T10:30:00Z45m

More CCTV footage of near deadly occurrences, including man pierced through the heart with the shattered blade of a power tool. Cameras also capture the moment a bus roof is ripped off - over the heads of stunned commuters.

2015-07-22T10:30:00Z

2x03 Episode 3

2x03 Episode 3

  • 2015-07-22T10:30:00Z45m

Alex Jones presents footage of near misses, including a surfer battered by 50ft waves, and a cyclist's helmet camera captures the moment he was hit by an oncoming car.

2015-07-23T10:30:00Z

2x04 Episode 4

2x04 Episode 4

  • 2015-07-23T10:30:00Z45m

Footage and recordings of near misses. A man almost severs his arm with a motorised saw and a pensioner clings onto a rope after falling from a boat into the freezing-cold sea.

2015-07-24T10:30:00Z

2x05 Episode 5

2x05 Episode 5

  • 2015-07-24T10:30:00Z45m

A British student becomes lost and without food for eight agonising days in a remote part of Turkey and an amateur racing driver crashes at high speed during a competition - with his vehicle hurtling down a ditch.

2015-07-27T10:30:00Z

2x06 Episode 6

2x06 Episode 6

  • 2015-07-27T10:30:00Z45m

A powerboat racer's vessel flips into the air while travelling at more than 130mph and a man wakes to find his girlfriend having a cardiac arrest.

2015-07-28T10:30:00Z

2x07 Episode 7

2x07 Episode 7

  • 2015-07-28T10:30:00Z45m

Five fishermen are swept off their sinking ship into the Atlantic Ocean as a helicopter winch man desperately tries to pluck them from the sea; and a petrified 11-year-old boy performs CPR on his motionless dad.

2015-07-29T10:30:00Z

2x08 Episode 8

2x08 Episode 8

  • 2015-07-29T10:30:00Z45m

A jockey leading a race suddenly falls unconscious from his horse, right into the path of the oncoming field.

2015-07-30T10:30:00Z

2x09 Episode 9

2x09 Episode 9

  • 2015-07-30T10:30:00Z45m

A six-year-old girl dials 999 after finding her mother unconscious and bleeding from the mouth, and a ferocious wave sweeps a fisherman from a pier into the sea as his horrified family watches on.

2015-07-31T10:30:00Z

2x10 Episode 10

2x10 Episode 10

  • 2015-07-31T10:30:00Z45m

A young girl gets hit by a tram on the way to school; A stunned takeaway customer films the moment the pavement explodes right in front of him.

2x11

  • no air date45m
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