Frank Selak, an 84 year old Croation, the luckest man alive.
He had his first escape from death in 1962 when a train he was travelling on from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik jumped the rails and plunged into a river killing 17 people. A year later, he was thrown out of a plane on his first and only flight when a door flew open and he landed in a haystack. This time 19 people died. In 1966, a bus he was on skidded into a river, drowning four. In 1970 his car caught fire as he drove along a motorway and he fled with seconds to spare before the fuel tank exploded.
Three years later, he lost most of his hair when a faulty fuel pump spewed petrol over the hot engine of his car and blew flames through the air vents. Then in 1995 he was knocked down by a bus in Zagreb but walked away with minor injuries. The following year, he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see a UN truck coming straight for him. He careered through a crash barrier and over the 300ft precipice. He leapt clear at the last minute and sat in a tree as he watched his car hit the bottom and explode.
He then won £600,000 with his first ever lottery ticket and celebrated his fifth marriage saying: "I guess all the earlier marriages were disasters too." He gave the money away preferring to live a simple life. He kept a small amount to build a shrine to the Blessed Virgin.
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