I was on holiday with a friend of mine and we had hired a boat for the day. We located our boat on the quayside and were walking down a set of stone steps to reach it. At the bottom step I caught my foot on part of the step that had cracked and raised, and fell forward and struck my head on the si... [More]

I was saying goodbye to my father outside my house in south London, and was standing in the road beside the driver’s side door. Suddenly a car turned out of a side road about ten metres away and roared towards us at great speed. Thankfully for my dad, he was already inside his car with the d... [More]

It had been a long day. A friend and I had been working at a rock festival and were now making our way home after spending a weekend sleeping in tents and getting up at the crack of dawn. Well,’sleep’ was a loose term for it: we had barely rested at all and were both very tired. To be... [More]

It was a dark, miserable night and I was making my way home from the train station. The rain was pelting down and street lights were few and far between as I hurried along the pavement. Suddenly I caught my toe and slammed to the ground, landing on my right arm. I was in agony, so much so that I ... [More]

I am a fireman and decided to take my son to a family fun day out at the station. One of the attractions there was a bouncy castle which was available for both adults and children to use. My son had just finished playing with some other children and was standing in front of the castle while some... [More]