

Close Calls: On CameraStaffel 5
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.
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- Folge #5.1F1
Folge #5.1A dad wheeling his son to playgroup and a waitress chatting outside a cafe must take evasive action as an out-of-control car careers onto the pavement. An off-duty firefighter has a collision on the ski slopes, and two students on their way home from college witness a train explosion. - Folge #5.2F2
Folge #5.2A young man is thrown from his vehicle and lands in the middle of a busy motorway after a tyre blowout in the fast lane, and a lorry driver captures the whole thing on a dash cam. A passer-by comes to the rescue of a woman on a sinking canal boat, and a young dad cycling home from work dodges death at a roundabout. - Folge #5.10F10
Folge #5.10An amateur racing driver loses control on the track. His car somersaults towards the crash barriers, his safety cage fails, and he is left hanging upside down from the car. Plus a young mum dials 999 suspecting her baby has meningitis, and a runaway bus heads down a hill with passengers still on board. - Folge 12F12
Folge 12The story of an 11-year-old boy who survived a cardiac arrest in a swimming pool, plus an unsuspecting woman who was sandwiched between two cars, when one skidded on ice, and a motorbike rider who crashed into the back of his friend's vehicle and went careering over the handlebars. - Folge 13F13
Folge 13The tale of a cyclist who survived two heart attacks in a week, and a lorry driver whose vehicle overturned and caught fire after he was forced to swerve to avoid another motorist. He lived to tell the tale, thanks to the bravery of another trucker who pulled him out of his burning lorry. - Folge 15F15
Folge 15Featuring the story of two close friends bodyboarding off an Australian beach, one of whom has to go to the aid of the other when a great white shark attacks. A motorist risks her life to save a family when their car bursts into flames following a motorway smash, and a woman survives when part of a huge tree crashes on to her car in a storm. - Folge 16F16
Folge 16Nick Knowles presents stories of people who have been on the brink of disaster and lived to tell the tale, all captured in recordings from the time, including how two little girls dialled 999 and saved their mum after she fell from the loft. Plus the stories of two cousins climbing a sea stack when one plunged 60 feet onto rocks and a trucker who came face to face with another lorry as he went round a bend on the same side of the road. - Folge 17F17
Folge 17A fishing trawler is sinking off the Shetland Islands, and one of the rescuers discovers his close friends are on board. Plus a little boy is trapped in a tumble dryer - the family's dog alerts his mum - and two brothers are on the Swiss ski slopes when one vanishes 60 feet down a crevasse. - Folge 18F18
Folge 18A worker in a remote location is trapped under his dumper truck when it topples and rolls on top of him, a racing driver's brakes fail, sending him somersaulting along the track, and a couple on their way to a birthday celebration overtake a super truck which fails to see them, sending them 40 feet over an embankment. - Folge 19F19
Folge 19A family break down on a busy road with no hard shoulder, and a lorry driver fails to see them. Plus a speedboat trip nearly ends in tragedy when the vessel is swamped by a wave, and a grandad out mountain biking with a friend takes a tumble in a remote location. A mountain rescue team go to his aid.