Close Calls: On Camera

A freak wave crashes into the Irish coast, knocking a startled woman 40-feet off a cliff onto the rocks below. Plus, a teenage girl riding pillion on her boyfriend's motorbike is flung off and slides underneath an oncoming car.

A man is pierced through the heart with the shattered blade of a power tool, and petrified commuters duck for cover as the roof is ripped off a London bus, right above their heads.

A professional surfer gets battered by a series of 50-foot waves, and a cyclist's helmet camera captures the terrifying moment he gets hit by an oncoming car.

A man using a motorised saw nearly severs his arm, and a pensioner is clinging onto a mooring rope for dear life after falling from a boat into the freezing cold sea.

A British student gets lost in the remote Turkish mountains, and an amateur racing driver loses control at high speed during a competition, sending his car hurtling down a ditch.

A record-breaking powerboat racer flips his vessel into the air while travelling at over 130 mph in the Lake District. There is a terrifying 999 call as a young man awakes to find his 24-year-old girlfriend having a cardiac arrest.

Five fishermen are swept off their sinking ship into the vast Atlantic Ocean as a helicopter winch man desperately tries to pluck them from the sea. A 999 call records the moment a petrified 11-year-old boy performs CPR on his motionless dad.

A jockey leading a race suddenly falls unconscious from his horse, right into the path of the oncoming field. A five-month-old baby is completely unresponsive - the petrified parents dial 999.

A six-year-old girl awakes to find her mum unconscious and bleeding from the mouth - the frightened youngster dials 999. A fisherman is swept from a pier by a ferocious wave into the turbulent sea - his horrified family look on.

A young girl gets hit by a tram on the way to school - pinning her leg underneath the carriage. A stunned takeaway customer films the moment the pavement explodes right in front of him.

Series which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters.

Series which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters.

Series which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters.

Series which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters.

A photographer captures the terrifying moment two men are suddenly swept away by a huge wave.

A family of cheetahs get too close for comfort for a safari-going holidaymaker.

A man searches for his wife when their car bursts into flames during a day out in the Lake District.

There's horror at the village fair as a go kart race goes terribly wrong when someone crashes.

A grandmother is injured when she falls on rocks during a family seaside holiday.

A couple asleep in their beds get a terrifying delivery from a Royal Mail lorry which smashes through the front of their home.