A dad wheeling his son to playgroup and a waitress chatting outside a cafe must take evasive action as an out-of-control car careers onto the pavement. An off-duty firefighter has a collision on the ski slopes, and two students on their way home from college witness a train explosion.

A young man hiking in the Cumbrian hills falls 200ft, and mountain rescue workers and an RAF helicopter come to his rescue. And two motorbiking brothers collide and four children playing in a park are at risk when a huge tree falls.