101 heart-stopping close shaves, averted disasters and brushes with danger feature in this one hour special narrated by Shane Richie.
Counting up from 1 to 101 we’ll see Near Misses everywhere, from on the road, in the sea, up in the air, and witness everyday people who came close to coming a cropper by just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We’ll hurtle through near misses in the workplace, including some window cleaners who were left dangling in mid-air hundreds of feet up as their cradle wire snaps. There are also near-misses involving transport including a commuter in India who’s lean out of an open train door nearly results in a deadly impact.
There’s also stupidity at level crossings, in planes and on the highway including one pedestrian who narrowly escapes being flattened by a truck as he crosses the road.
Daredevils and adventurers are never far away from a near miss and we’ve got an array of them, including champion surfer Mick Fanning almost ending up being on the menu for a shark while competing in a tournament. While Chris Gursky’s excitement at an assisted hand-gliding trip quickly turns to terror when it becomes apparent he’s not harnessed in and is forced to cling with one hand for a gut-wrenching two minutes or face a fatal fall.
There are also some lucky children – avoiding disaster by just inches as a huge tree falls beside them; clinging on as they riding up the outside of an escalator, and narrowly missing falling furniture. At the other end of the age range, there are near misses involving pensioners including rogue mobility scooter drivers and a poor lady in India who stops outside a religious shrine to pray, only to get knocked over by a dustbin truck. Miraculously, moments later she gets back up totally unscathed.