1 : Frane Selak Escaped from a derailed train a door-less plane a bus crash a car into flames another 2 car accidents.. but then won $1,000,000 dollars on the lottery! Frane Selak (born 1929) is a Croatian music teacher famous for his numerous escapes from fatal accidents:In January. 1962. Selak was traveling via train from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. However the train had suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy river killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to escape and only suffered a broken arm and minor scrapes and bruises. The following year while traveling from Zagreb to Rijeka when the door blew away from the cockpit forcing him out of the plane. Although 19 others were killed he suffered only minor injuries and had miraculously landed in a haystack. In 1966 he was riding on a bus that crashed and plunged into a river. Four others were killed but Selak managed to flee unharmed. In 1970 he managed to escape before a faulty fuel pump engulfed his car into flames. In 1973 another of Selak's cars caught blast forcing fire through the air vents. He suffered no injuries save the loss of most of his hair. In 1995 he was hit by a city bus but once again suffered minor injuries. In 1996 he escaped when he drove off a cliff to escape an oncoming transport. He managed to land in a tree and watched as his car exploded 300 feet below him. In 2003 he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery and had stated that "I know God was watching me over all these years." He has reputedly refused to fly to Australia to air on a Doritos commercial saying he "didn't want to test his luck."He has said that he can either be looked as "the world's unluckiest man or the world's luckiest man," and prefers the latter. 2 : John LyneSuffered 16 major accidents in his life. As a teen he felt from a tree; on his way back from hospital his bus crashed. John Lyne could well be Britain's unluckiest man. 'Calamity John' has suffered 16 major accidents in his life including lightning strikes a rock-fall in a exploit and three car crashes. 'I don't evaluate there is any reason or explanation. Things could have been much worse and I could have died but it doesn't worry me too much.'Mr Lyne's mishaps adjoin a lifetime and he has even been known to suffer two accidents at once. As a child he fell off a horse and cart – only to be run over by a delivery van. When he was a teenager he broke his arm falling from a tree. On his way approve from hospital his bus crashed breaking the same arm in another place..
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