Close Calls: On Camera

CCTV captures the moment a road worker is crushed under the wheels of a reversing dump truck. His colleagues need to give emergency first aid to help save his life. Elsewhere, a thatched cottage catches fire while work is being done in the roof. Along with the workman, the homeowner is still inside as his son-in-law calls 999.

A 12-year-old boy is airlifted from England's highest mountain after suffering severe head injuries in a 50-foot fall onto rocks. Elsewhere, a paraglider filming high above a motorway captures thick black smoke pouring from a burning lorry. The fire is so intense that firefighters are running out of water.

A farmer finds his 14-year-old son lying severely injured in a field after having been run over by his tractor and trailer. Elsewhere, a pregnant woman in labour, waiting for a taxi to hospital, ends up giving birth on the pavement helped by the police.

A rider is dragged along the ground after falling off her bolting horse. Her friend needs to get help fast when she finds her unconscious and badly injured. Elsewhere, a father of three falls asleep inside his summerhouse. CCTV captures the moment a huge explosion rips through the building.

A young mum, alone at home with her three-year-old daughter, has a life-threatening asthma attack. Elsewhere, a coastguard helicopter lowers a winch to a swimmer who has clambered 50 feet up a crumbling cliff face, but the aircraft's downdraft makes the rescue hazardous.

A desperate husband calls 999 after his wife falls down the stairs onto a fish tank, slashing her neck on broken glass. Elsewhere, a man rekindling his love for walking ends up having to be airlifted off a mountain after breaking his leg.

A mother and son are helped by neighbours when an out-of-control car smashes into their house. A couple have a lucky escape whilst driving, as a lorry sheds its load while rounding a bend at speed. And a biker must make a split second decision on a busy roundabout.

A Christmas day walk in the Peaks takes a dramatic turn when an injured hiker becomes stranded in the freezing cold temperature, and two young siblings bravely call 999 after hearing their mum fall down the stairs in their home.

A professional mountain biker needs urgent medical help after a front flip he performs at a bike track goes horribly wrong. Also, two friends aboard a small fishing vessel get more than they bargained for when a very big haul almost catches them out.

The fiancée of a young man in cardiac arrest fights to keep him alive after finding him unconscious in his sleep, and a stunned driver narrowly escapes from his burning vehicle after being flagged down by another motorist.

Emergency services struggle to release a farmer impaled on a metre-long spike on his loading vehicle. Also, an injured hiker is rescued from a deep ravine in a remote part of the Peak District.

Three siblings battle to save the life of their father, who has suffered a heart attack in the garden. A rally cross driver and his navigator have a lucky escape when their rally car barrel-rolls after taking off from a jump at high speed.

A seven-year-old girl dials 999 from the back seat of her mother’s car as Mum is desperately struggling to breathe. A major rope rescue is launched when a climber plunges down a rocky cliff face, severely injuring his leg.

A young man is thrown from his motorbike, hitting his head hard on a tree stump. His father dials 999, and an air ambulance crew races to the scene. Elsewhere, tension mounts when the crew aboard a British yacht are surrounded by a pod of killer whales.

Mountain rescue volunteers, paramedics and fellow hikers race to save the life of a walker who has plummeted 100 feet from a rock stack in the Peak District. A young moped rider is knocked off his bike and fellow drivers rush to his aid.

A young woman and her friends are pulled out to sea in a freak rip current. A lifeguard and the coastguard are scrambled as they battle to stay afloat, and a mum is driving home from work when a huge sheet of ice crashes into her windscreen.

A kayaker comes to the rescue of a young man who has plunged more than 100 feet into the sea from a Dorset beauty spot, and Mountain Rescue are called to help a man on a remote river trail.

A 15-year-old girl fights to save her father’s life when he has a heart attack after picking her up from school, and a driver loses control of a car, scooping two men up on to the bonnet and crashing through a shop window.

A Mountain Rescue team fight their way through appalling conditions to rescue a walker on Snowdon, and a mountain biker crash-lands after a jump, leading his friends to believe he's broken his neck.

A family flee their home when a battery charger, bought online, starts a fire that destroys their house. Also, a paddle boarder and a drone operator combine their skills to save four horses cut off by a river that has burst its banks.

Rescue workers battle to save two students on Dartmoor when their island camp is cut off as a flooded river turns into a torrent. Elsewhere, a shop owner and his customers have a lucky escape when a car crashes through the window and into the store.

A farm engineer is driving home in his newly purchased truck when a wheel comes off. Plus, a five-year-old boy uses the number on his toy ambulance to call for help when his mum is taken ill.

Mountain Rescue come to the aid of a couple scrambling in the Lake District for their second date, when he plunges 60 meters down the mountain and she gets stuck on rocks above. Also, a teenage boy jumps into a water-filled dyke to save a drowning horse.

A man once rejected by the fire service for being too short rushes into a burning building to save an elderly woman. A young boxer tries to dodge a car shunted onto the pavement at speed, and a cyclist on his commute home has a near miss when a driver fails to see him on a busy dual carriageway.

During a go-kart race, a teenage girl is sent crashing into a bridge with her parents anxiously watching on. A major rescue operation is launched after mother and daughter kayakers are left stranded on mudflats.

A teenage girl rings her parents to tell them their home is on fire, and her father braves the smoke and flames to save her. Also, a young mum on the way to hospital to give birth doesn't make it. Her partner dials 999 as the baby begins to arrive in the car.

Police and a flight attendant perform CPR at the scene of an accident on the motorway where a lorry driver has suffered a cardiac arrest. When a young boy falls from a tree, his mother calls the mountain rescue team for help.

A father out surfing is found unconscious in the sea, fellow surfers battle to pull him to shore and give him CPR as lifeboat and coastguard services join the rescue. A father is on the school run when a huge tree crashes onto his car.

A climber in the Lake District plunges hundreds of feet down a mountain, coming to rest above a precipice. A driver ploughs into a car that is blocking the fast lane of a motorway at night.

A Scottish cyclist on a round-the-world challenge is hit by a driver in Texas. Plus, a family dog saves the day when a mother slips and falls on the stairs.

A base jumper leaps from a cliff top, but his parachute spins him 180 degrees and he plummets down the rock face. College students on their way home are injured when their coach leaves the road and overturns.

A young boy must find help after his grandfather falls on a rocky cliff face, a road racing cyclist's career is threatened when he is hit by a car, and a motorbike rider hits black ice.

A 15-year-old girl fights to save her father's life when he has a heart attack after picking her up from school. A driver loses control of their car, scooping two men up on to the bonnet and crashing through a shop window.

When a young man falls unconscious in his bedroom it is up to an online friend in Texas to raise the alarm. A nine-year-old boy on holiday in Scotland gets stung by a giant jellyfish.

Mountain Rescue battle 100mph winds to rescue a woman has slipped and fallen near the summit of Snowden. Paramedics fight to save the life of a cardiac patient whose heart stops three times on the way to hospital.

A skier suffers a leg injury in a remote part of the Alps. Her guide attempts to ski her to safety, carrying her on his back. A little girl calls 999 when her mum goes into anaphylactic shock after eating an ice cream.

Two divers documenting a wreck in the Thames find more than they bargained for and call in the Royal Navy bomb team. An insecure load flies off a vehicle, landing on the windscreen of another driver, blocking his view of a busy motorway.

An eight-year-old boy taking part in a karting race clips the wheel of a rival, sending his own kart somersaulting through the air. A man leaps into a river to save a drowning dog and ends up having to be rescued too.

A group of friends are hiking in the Lake District when one falls 650 ft. A doctor and a paramedic operate on the mountainside to try to save his life. A motorist crests a hill to see a car coming towards him on the wrong side of the road.

A couple are on a trip to celebrate their wedding anniversary when their car is hit by a truck on the M1, spinning it into the path of another HGV. A wingsuit freefaller hits trouble when his parachute gets tangled up.

A terrified family calls 999 when their baby becomes unresponsive, and paramedics must shock him back to life with a defibrillator. A truck driver is diverted along a narrow country road which can't cope with the weight of his vehicle.

Staff at a trampoline centre fight to save a father who has collapsed. A paraglider gets into trouble and loses height rapidly. He attempts to land on a road but doesn't make it.

An angler fishing off rocks is swept out into a raging sea, and a mountain biker attempts a trick but doesn't make it.

Stories of near misses when life hangs in the balance, presented by Nick Knowles. Today, a hiker is in search of his dog when a cliff crumbles beneath his feet, a dramatic rescue by a coastguard rope team is captured on camera, and passers-by save the life of a woman who has collapsed in the street.

Footage from a glider pilot captures him crashing and getting stuck in a tree and the operation to rescue him. CCTV records a car that fails to stop at a notorious crossroads.

A base jumper misjudges his launch and crash-lands on a rocky beach. A mother relives the moment her young daughter fell from her pony during a competition and was trampled underfoot.

A fisherman describes being washed overboard at night off the south coast, a history buff tells how he hauled a live grenade out of a canal, and a student relives the moment when a massive tree struck her car during a storm.

2 scuba divers describe how they found a WWII bomb under a pier. A steward at a cycling event tells how a support car drove straight at him. A mother snatches her child from the path of a car.

1,000's of football fans applaud as helicopter medics land on the pitch and try to save the life of a club steward. A young mum describes how a huge lorry ploughed into stationary traffic.

Pensioner Brian tells how he became trapped up to his neck in a slurry pit until a former policeman rescued him. A mum and her young daughter describe how their car plunged off the road into a water filled ditch.

A father of two calls for help as what appeared to be a sore throat becomes sepsis. A historic home and restaurant is engulfed in flames, but a young man sleeps through the fire alarm.

A drone searches for a British climber who has gone missing in the Himalayas. A mother panics when she sees a news picture of her son's wrecked car and she can't contact him.

When a 79-year-old celebrates his birthday with a tandem skydive the main chute fails to open. A young mum suffers a cardiac arrest following an asthma attack. A taxi driver comes to the aid of a customer whose flat is on fire.

An 8-year-old boy suffers a freak accident while riding on his scooter and a doctor is forced to operate on him at the scene of the accident. Holidaymakers run for their lives when a cliff collapses at a Greek island beauty spot.

When a small plane loses engine power a day trip over the Dorset coast turns into a terrifying ordeal. Three young lads call for help when when two of them become trapped in a mountain of mud and begin to sink.

A daughter dials 999 when her father suffers a cardiac arrest while her sister battles to save him. Coastguard volunteers try to save a climber who has fallen off a cliff in Wales.

Two workmates leap into a harbour to save a drowning man, on her way home from work a mum falls asleep at the wheel and a hiker captures a dramatic moment when a cliff collapses in front of her.

A paralympian comes crashing down to earth when a para motor plane develops a problem after take off. A pub landlady rushes to warn a regular that his house is on fire.

The Royal Navy save 14 people from a yacht that has lost its mast amid a mid-Atlantic storm. A schoolgirl sees her mum's car on fire outside the school and fears she is still inside it.

Nick Knowles returns with more life or death situations. A driver opens his door suddenly sending a motorcyclist into the path of a bus. A pregnant woman calls 999 after suffering huge blood loss.

Nick tells the story of a lorry driver trapped in his cab for hours after swerving to avoid a deer at night. Also, a family searching for their lost dog seek help when dad gets stuck in the mud as the tide turns.

The story of a para-glider left hanging by a thread in a forest after his canopy collapses. A dash cam captures the moment 3 cars collide. A bullock on the pitch has a cricket team hit for six.

The story of a driver whose dash cam records his heart attack and dramatic rescue by passing motorists. Rescuers rush to the aid of a group of people swept out to sea only to be swept away themselves.

Featuring the story of a British professional cyclist involved in a horrific collision with a race support vehicle. A dashboard camera captures a car crash. Two men lighting a bonfire are in for a shock.

Nick examines the extraordinary rescue of a young man swept out to sea on his surfboard. In Leeds a local resident comes to the aid of a young woman who has fallen into a river.

Nick Knowles introduces the story of a father and his 12-year-old daughter lost overnight on a glacier in freezing temperatures. Also, a man wakes to find his canal barge is sinking.

2 young men are attempting to set a world record rowing the Atlantic when a freak wave capsizes their boat, and a family day out in the snow almost ends in tragedy when a dad has a sledging accident.

A group of hikers are enjoying a day on Dartmoor when one falls, landing on rocks below, and a young couple and their baby flee a hotel fire after a fellow guest alerts them to the danger.

A top British surfer rides the wave of his life but then it all goes wrong, two little girls call for help when their dad collapses, and a mum and daughter suddenly find their tumble drier on fire.

A group of visitors, including a mother and newborn baby, are trapped 50 metres up at the top of a popular tourist attraction, and there are terrifying consequences for a young rock climber when he disobeys his father.

A veteran saloon car race driver is involved in a horrific crash on the finish line, two friends fish a hand grenade out of a river, and a young boy alerts his mum to a car fire.

A base jumper's parachute gets tangled up when he leaps off Beachy Head, passers by come to the aid of a fitness trainer collapsed in the street and a fire near a petrol station causes staff and customers to flee.

A woman is trapped in her loft conversion bedroom while a fire rages below her. Rescuers race against the tide to save a young boy who has fallen off a pier while chasing his dog.

An adventurous old-aged-pensioner is lost on Ben Nevis in a howling snow storm, and a van driver skids on black ice to end up teetering on the very edge of a motorway bridge.

When a film extra is taken ill at the top of a tower at Worcester Cathedral a coastguard crew try to save him, a mother and daughter flee a fire in their flat and pub customers flee an out-of-control lorry.

A young couple out for a walk are struck by an out-of-control car, a young mother dials 999 when her baby is unresponsive and a teenage motorcyclist meets a 4x4 head on.

Nick 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.

Featuring 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.

The story of a young man kicked in the head by his girlfriend's horse. Plus the remarkable tale of survival of a British diver lost at sea off the Australian coast for more than 22 hours.

The 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.

The 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.

Nick tells the moving story of a police motorcyclist, responding to help at an accident, who crashed and became the patient himself. Plus a conservationist describes what happened when he was attacked by the very elephants he campaigns to save.

An 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.

A retired policeman comes to the aid of a young man after his car careers off a ferry and sinks in the harbour. A climber falls in the Cairngorms, but bad weather makes rescue difficult, and a British pilot must evacuate his plane after a massive engine explosion on take-off.

A 12-year-old boy falls from a clifftop on to concrete sea defences. His father arrives at the scene to find emergency workers battling to save his son. And two British adventures are trapped in the ice off Alaska in a bid to cross the Bering Sea.

A mountain biker crashes head first at a jump and an off-duty rescue worker comes to his aid, a grandmother misreads road crossing signs and steps out in front of a biker, and a group of friends on a skiing trip are caught up in an avalanche.

A frantic mum calls 999 when her seven-year-old daughter suffers a cardiac arrest, a microlight pilot loses power at 4,000ft and must dodge power cables to land, and two pals on holiday escape their hire car as it goes up in flames.

A couple are celebrating their wedding anniversary on a luxury fort out at sea when one is severely injured. Coastguard and lifeboat crews rush to her aid. And a lorry driver has seconds to save his life as an insecure load on another truck hurtles towards him.

Two best friends on a holiday fishing trip are lost at sea, and their wives fear the worst. An elderly bedridden man is trapped in a house fire, and a neighbour risks all to rescue him.

A young man hiking in the Cumbrian hills falls 200ft, and mountain rescue workers and an RAF helicopter come to his rescue. Two motorbiking brothers collide, and four children playing in a park are at risk when a huge tree falls.

A 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.

A 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.

A family on safari are attacked by an elephant as they sit down to eat. A climber plummets from near the top of Helvellyn in the Lake District. A singer and her band flee as the hotel venue catches fire.

A British pensioner on the trip of a lifetime is lost in the Australian bush without food and water. A mum on the school run is crushed by her own car. A champion British kite surfer suffers a traumatic injury when a stunt goes wrong.

A para-glider misjudges the thermals and plunges, out of control into the tree canopy. Two young boys are trapped on the top floor of their burning home. A snowboarder is wiped out by a skier.

A mountain biker suffers a freak accident in the Peak District and lies bleeding to death. An emergency call handler takes a call from a 3-year-old whose pregnant mum has fallen down the stairs.

A teacher walking her dog becomes entombed in a mudslide. A coastguard team battle to save her but become trapped too. A schoolgirl texting as she gets off the bus doesn't see the car heading towards her.

A supermarket manager and his girlfriend risk their lives to rescue a pensioner from a burning car. A teen adventurer has a near miss with an iceberg. A family find a strange object on the beach.

A motorcycle rider and his back-up team end up engulfed in flames. Cheetah's get to close for comfort for a safari-going holidaymaker.

A grandmother tries to save her grandson from choking on a grape. Two men are hit by a freak wave and are swept away by the current.

Two members of the Red Devils parachute display team collide during a public event. A mother risks her life trying to rescue her son during a beach holiday.

A teenage brother and sister find themselves in a situation when their parasail detaches from their tow boat and they are heading towards a power cable. A children's author is viewing a property and is nearly trampled to death.

A 15-year-old girl is taking selfies with her pal, when she falls down a 200ft cliff. A Royal Navy winchman risks his own life over and over trying to save six fishermen.

Two best friends find themselves adrift in the North Sea and promise one another that they will look after each other's families if they shouldn't make it out alive. A British teacher in China, is hit badly by a speeding driver whilst waiting for a takeaway.

A record-breaking powerboat racer flips his vessel into the air while travelling at over 130mph in the Lake District. There is a terrifying 999 call as a young man awakes to find his 24-year-old girlfriend having a cardiac arrest.

A British student is lost and starving in the remote Turkish mountains. His parents desperately wait to discover if he's alive for eight agonising days. An amateur racing driver loses control at high speed during a competition, sending his car hurtling down a ditch.

A man using a motorised saw nearly severs his arm. As he rapidly loses blood, his wife makes a dramatic 999 call. A pensioner clings to a mooring rope for dear life after falling from a boat into the freezing cold sea.

A professional surfer is battered by a series of 50-foot waves, while his friend swoops in to try to save him. A cyclist's helmet camera captures the terrifying moment he gets hit by an oncoming car.

A man is pierced through the heart with the shattered blade of a power tool - his horrified best friend dials 999. Petrified commuters duck for cover as the roof is ripped off a London bus, right above their heads.

A freak wave crashes into the Irish coast, knocking a startled woman 40 feet down a cliff onto the rocks below. A teenage girl riding pillion on her boyfriend's motorbike is flung off and slides underneath an oncoming car, with horrific consequences.

Dramatic stories of people who have had a brush with disaster, including one of the most horrific falls a jockey has survived in the history of British horseracing and a chilling 999 call - a seven-year-old girl has been swallowed up by the ground.

Motorists struggle to save a woman trapped in her crashed car - it's on fire, and they have only moments to get her out. Elsewhere, a young motorcyclist films his own lucky escape on a busy roundabout.

When fire engulfs a brand new boat, two men battle to launch a life raft - with their hair and clothes on fire. Elsewhere, a charity climber makes a last-minute change of plan and ends up being airlifted to safety.

A display at an air show goes horribly wrong - with a vintage plane diving straight into the ground, the pilot has to make a split-second decision. And CCTV records a mystery explosion blasting out from under a busy central London pavement.

When a farmer is speared by his own tractor, the scale of the drama is captured in his neighbour's 999 call to the ambulance. Elsewhere, a free solo climber films his own frightening fall from a sheer rock face.

A 70-year-old pilot is hurled out of his glider after a mid-air collision, and a son sets out to film a skiing race with his dad but ends up filming his father's accident.

A man fights for life for 90 minutes alone in the cold waters of the north Pacific Ocean - the rescue is captured by a yacht's onboard cameras. A road worker tells the tale of what happens when drivers don't see the cones.

An extreme sportsman films himself plummeting down a 1,000-foot cliff and his parachute fails to open properly. He explains why his survival is nothing short of miraculous. Plus the moment a six-year-old girl takes charge after her mother falls into a coma at the wheel.

A cyclist disappears under the wheels of an 18-ton truck, a 16-year-old gets stuck in a drain trying to rescue her mobile phone and a camera in a train cab captures the moment a woman is pulled from the live rail track to safety.

CCTV captures the moment a motorbike hits a car, catapulting a married couple metres through the air. They tell their remarkable story of rescue and survival and relive the moment their journey home changed their lives forever.

A young man falls down a huge crack in the ice thousands of feet up a mountain. A car catches fire at a safari park, inside the lion enclosure. Police chase a high speed driver who has overtaken 4 unmarked police cars.