11.   Five firemen narrowly escaped death when a staircase collapsed beneath their feet.

12.   She barely escaped death when her car slid off the road.

13.   He landed wheels-up on the sandbank and he and all the crew escaped certain death.

14.   A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.

15.   A MAN narrowly escaped death when a fire broke out in his Newtownards home on Sunday morning.

16.   Gerry Drumgoole managed to escape death at his Hazelfield Street home on Monday afternoon but has lost his spleen and suffered other internal injuries.

17.   His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.

18.   Almost since the day she escaped death, her life has been marked by pain.

19.   Although his ailment could be treated, Erdos had narrowly escaped death.

20.   American Mike Foale and Russians Vasily Tsibliev and Alexander Lazutkin escape death by quickly sealing off the damaged Spektr module from the remainder of the orbital station.