21. How Many Times Can a Man Escape Death?
For as long as Frane Selak can remember, the Grim Reaper seems to have been out to get him. Yet he somehow managed to escape his clutches time after time. Born in Croatia, Selak has often been labeled the world’s luckiest unlucky man. Unlucky because he faced more than his fair share of horrific mishaps and accidents. Lucky because he survived and managed to escape with his life – and some of those accidents were of a type that nobody had any business surviving.
Selak’s record of mishaps includes being in a train that derailed and plunged into a river. He was in a bus that skidded off a road and fell into a river. He was blown out of an airplane. His car erupted into flames while he was driving – twice. He was hit by a bus. His car hit a guardrail and plunged 300 feet off a cliff.