Close Calls: On Camera

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Series looking at the split-second moments when everyday events turn into disasters.

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Close Calls: On Camera: Series 7: Episode 11

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A former policeman rescues a pensioner who is trapped up to his neck in a slurry pit.

A pensioner gets trapped up to his neck in a slurry pit, and a car plunges off the road into a water-filled ditch.

Pensioner Brian tells how he became trapped up to his neck in a slurry pit until former policeman Matt came to his rescue, and a mum and her young daughter describe the moment their car plunged off the road into a water-filled ditch.

Close Calls: On Camera: Series 7

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Stories of near misses when life hangs in the balance, presented by Nick Knowles.

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