Close Calls: On Camera

Season 2

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.

Where to Watch Season 2

11 Episodes

  • Episode 1
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    Episode 1The 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.
  • Episode 2
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    Episode 2More 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.
  • Episode 3
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    Episode 3Alex 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.
  • Episode 4
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    Episode 4Footage 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.
  • Episode 5
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    Episode 5A 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.
  • Episode 6
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    Episode 6A 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.
  • Episode 7
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    Episode 7Five 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.
  • Episode 8
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    Episode 8A jockey leading a race suddenly falls unconscious from his horse, right into the path of the oncoming field.
  • Episode 9
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    Episode 9A 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.
  • Episode 10
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    Episode 10A 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.
  • Episode 11
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    Episode 11

 

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