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 Sometimes
unexpected accidents happen in our lives. In fact, car accidents, airplane
crashes, and many other kinds
of accidents happen every day all over the world. Can you believe
that there is a man who has survived seven serious accidents throughout his lifetime? In addition, he won the lottery
and made a lot of money! The name of the world’s luckiest man is Frano
Selak.
Mr. Selak is now 81 years old. He was a music teacher in Croatia.
So, why is he called the luckiest man on Earth?
He came across seven horrible accidents in his
life, but he survived them all! His first accident happened in 1962
when a train he was travelling on from Sarajevo
to Dubrovnik jumped the rails and plunged into a
cold river. Seventeen people drowned in the accident,
but Mr. Selak managed to swim out to the riverbank.
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year later, his second accident happened and he was thrown out of an airplane
when a door flew open. A total of 19 people died
this time, but the lucky man was pulled out of the airplane and landed in a haystack safely.
Then in 1966, he came across his third accident when a bus he was
on skidded into a river. Again,
he swam to safety and survived. Accident number four happened in 1970
when his car caught fire as he drove along an expressway. He managed to
escape from the burning car
before the fuel tank exploded.
Three years later, he lost most of his hair when a broken fuel pump
spewed petrol over the hot engine
of his car and blew flames through the air vents, but he wasn’t
seriously injured. Then in 1995, he was hit by a bus in Zagreb, but
luckily, he wasn’t seriously
injured.
 The following year, his seventh
accident happened when he was driving in the mountains. When he turned
a corner, he saw a big truck coming straight for him. When he
opened his eyes, his car was falling over a high precipice. But he managed
to sit in a tree before his car hit the bottom and exploded.
His luck didn’t end here. He won about a billion won when he bought
a lottery ticket for the first time to celebrate his wedding anniversary five
years ago! He bought a luxury house and even a private island with
the money. But the lucky man recently decided to give away all of
his fortune. “Money cannot buy happiness. So I decided to live a simple,
thrifty life,” he said. “All
I need at my age is my wife. Money would not change anything,” he
added with a bright smile. |
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