Close Calls: On Camera

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Stadium medics battle to save the life of a football fanatic who suffers a cardiac arrest on the way to a match. And a mum who is living in fear after her picturesque family home is destroyed by a car.

A race against the tide as a young woman lies injured in a rock pool after plunging 40 foot down a cliff during a family holiday. And a young girl and her grandfather come close to tragedy on a bike ride that threatens to be their last.

A helicopter rescue mission for an injured climber who is stranded alone after plummeting down a rock face. And a cyclist’s brush with death as a giant hay bale falls from a passing tractor.