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Old 23-04-2010
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Default britains unluckiest man

Sounds Like a Plotline From Film 'Final Destination!'

John Child,45, has had five car crashes, three hit and runs, been struck by a bus and mown down on a crossing.


The engineer has cleared his name in nine out of the ten disputes but is still fighting a legal battle from the last incident.
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He Says 'I still can't work out why this keeps happening to me.'

  • His catalogue of disasters began on 24 January 1999 when a woman pulled out and drove into the passenger side of his VW Golf as he drove across a roundabout.
  • On 7 September 2000 he was driving his Black Golf onto a roundabout when a female driver crashed into his left hand side.
He was accused of being drunk, using his phone and driving at 80 mph but after breathalysing John and checking his phone for recent calls, police cleared him.

  • On 18 April 2002 he was on roundabout when he had to perform an emergency stop as an articulated lorry careered in front of him and was hit by another car.
  • The fourth incident occurred when keen cyclist John was cycling past a T-junction on the road to Newport Pagnell and a bus drove out and hit him.
John slid down the road and the wheels of the bus narrowly avoided his legs but he sustained severe whiplash and bruising all over his body.

  • Hapless John continued to cycle, but on 13 January 2005 he was approaching a roundabout on his bike when he was in a hit-and-run by an S-class Mercedes.
  • Just a week later on 20 January 2005 when he was knocked off his bike in another hit-and-run and this time tore a ligament in his shoulder.
  • In September 2006, just weeks before he was due an operation on his shoulder, he was run over on a zebra crossing causing further bruising.
  • Just six months later, he was in another hit-and-run when he was knocked down in a car park by a driver who did not stop.
  • After giving up cycling in 2005, John was driving his Honda Civic on 15 July 2007 when a young man pulled out of a side road as he drove past and slammed into his left side.
  • Finally, on 31 March last year he was involved in another collision in his Civic which is still the subject of an ongoing dispute.
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Old 23-04-2010
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Someone get this man a high-vis jacket!
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