Jared Harris: How close have you come to dying?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗

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Bradley Wiggins British former professional road and track racing cyclist

I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Ed Harris American actor and director

Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Emma Bunton British singer

When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

Shaun Ryder English singer

I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗