Near (ish) miss

[Namethecat]

Was out walking in an area that had a few trees around ( but not a wood ) when heard a noise and looked towards it where a large branch crashed to the ground. If anyone had been under the tree I'm sure they would now be dead or at least extremely injured. Have you had or seen any close near misses ?

This happened to me and DH. Huge branch crashed from a great height and missed us by inches. We had just got out of the car and I had opened the boot to get something out. The branch landed on the car roof. It was a good 8ft long and about 8 inches thick.

Yes. Was picking up DC from school during a storm a couple years back. A big gust of wind blew down a tree. It landed on a path which had been full of children and parents just a few minutes before.

Yes, I was walking along a road lined with horse chestnuts once, there was a queue of slow moving traffic and a huge branch fell right in between two cars, missing both. I was about 100 yards away.