The biggest near miss I was ever around, from a "that guy was definitely dead" point of view, was this idiot kid who was trying to impress some girls. They waiting to cross the street (on foot) and then the idiot kid decided to just walk out directly into traffic to impress the girls. It had to have been the dumbes thing I've ever seen. He stepped out right in front of a bus. Luckily one of the girls pulled him back. Quite honestly, an idiot like that probably deserves to be hit, but I was about 2 feet away and that would've been something that haunted me for a long time. I was within about 2 feet and would've been covered with the resulting mess (yeah, I feel a bit dirty saying something like that).