A very good family friend of ours had a near-death experience some 15 years ago, after being hit by a car.
She was a pedestrian, and was crossing the road when a van lost control and hit her. It actually collected her and dragged her along the row of parked cars that were beside her – it was a very serious accident in which she clinically died at the scene and was revived, and it resulted in her being in a coma for some months afterwards.
