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Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
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Edith Bowman
Scottish radio DJ and television presenter
I had a car crash not long after passing my test, driving mates to a club on a Saturday night. Thankfully, everyone was OK – as was my dad about his car, which was a write-off.
Tom Ellis
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Every time I let my wife drive.
Jenny Diski
Novelist and essayist
The print size in my mind decreased with time’s incremental decline, and as I arrived at the last word – weeks – it suddenly struck me, with all the force of the fullest sense of the word ‘struck’, that this could actually be his answer and not just the logical next time period in my sentence. Every cell in my body, except those responsible for maintaining a reasonable, calm exterior, was now lindy-hopping at that possibility, the only one that hadn’t occurred to me until that moment.
About five years ago, a half-tonne tree branch fell and missed me by three feet.
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