# Death: Have you ever "missed it by that much"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 21, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-have-you-ever-missed-it-by-that-much/1011986 "2024-12-21T19:29:35Z")
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### Author: ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-have-you-ever-missed-it-by-that-much/1011986/5 "2024-12-21T19:57:53Z")

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From 2005

> [@I was almost killed a year ago this morning.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-almost-killed-a-year-ago-this-morning/310368):
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> I was riding my bicycle to work last year when I was hit by a pick-up truck/horse trailer. The truck mirror struck my helmet and the fender on the trailer hit me in the thigh,tearing away part of my hamstring and breaking the femur. I was thrown about 20-25 feet with my left shoe landing about 40 ft. beyond that. I crawled back to my bike,collecting my fanny pack and glasses along the way.I am somewhat unsure as to the passage of time but the ambulance and fire trucks seem to arrive very quic…

Basically, a few inches either way would have been a clean miss or a clean kill.

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