Schoolboy lucky to escape out of control BMW

A random decision to move just a few metres was all that stood between this school boy and almost certain death.

The footage, believed to have originated in eastern Europe, shows the youngster waiting behind a rail and kicking stones on the ground as school boys often do.

The young man was standing in the impact zone just seconds before the crash. Photo: Screenshot
The young man was standing in the impact zone just seconds before the crash. Photo: Screenshot

He ambles casually to the right, kicking another rock behind a telegraph pole.

The choice to move just a few metres to his right proved a life and death decision for the student. Photo: Screenshot
The choice to move just a few metres to his right proved a life and death decision for the student. Photo: Screenshot

That proved a fateful decision.

Seconds later an out of control BMW smashes through the railing and into the telegraph pole, which shields him from devastating injury or death.

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Dash cam footage shows a truck lose control of its rear, which then strays into the path of another on-going vehicle.

The riders emerge unscathed from the shower of dust and debris that engulfs them.

Mother with pram in miraculous near miss

A mother and her baby are lucky to be alive after a car crashed just a few feet in front of them in Poland.

CCTV vision uploaded to LiveLeak shows a mother pushing her child along a footpath when an out-of-control car mounts the curb and crashes into a pole.

The woman only just has time to jump out of the way as the car screams past.

Truckie averts disaster

The horrifying moment a truck driver had to swerve their vehicle to avoid crushing a man lying on the road has been captured on video.

Dash cam vision shows the truck driver swerve their semi-trailer into oncoming traffic to avoid running over an elderly man that was lying right in the middle of the road.

While the front of the semi-trailer steers clear of the oncoming traffic, the rear end nearly swipes a white vehicle completely off the road.

Luckily the truck driver recovers just it time, and the white vehicle and the semi-trailer avoid a collision.

Both drivers then come to a stop, no doubt in shock at their terrifying near miss.

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