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A motorbike crash. I broke my shoulder and ribs and was so scared I didn’t ride for two years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2019 source ↗
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Rose McGowan
American actress and activist
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
Sue Perkins
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Anna dared me to jump off a cliff in Menorca on holiday a couple of years ago. I did. I fell 30m through the air, hit the water at an odd angle and shattered my coccyx.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
On the Freedom Rides in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a state trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die.
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