Close Calls: On Camera

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 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 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 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 pedestrian is involved in an accident when a bus shunts a parked car into him.

When a building site worker digs up a World War II bomb, 3,000 Londoners are moved out of their homes.

Fire crews battle to reach a woman trapped in her 3rd-floor flat as smoke and flames envelop them all. Snowboarders accidentally trigger an avalanche on Mount Cook.

A team of British rowers take on the Pacific Ocean, but their journey nearly ends in tragedy as their boat begins to sink. A family watch in horror as their 4-year-old daughter runs into the path of a car.