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Yes several times in fact.
In 1986, I was in a car with my girlfriend and we were just about to go through an intersection when a car crossed the red light in front of us. We hit the car going 40 mph but luckily kind of rolled off of it. We both weren't wearing seat belts. We were both lucky to get out with only a few broken bones.
In 1995, I was in the middle of an ice-filled highway with cars on my right and in front and back. The car two cars in front started spinning out. The next car spun out. It started a chain reaction with about 8 cars in the ditch. I couldn't really do anything but go forward and luckily I wasn't touched. That one wasn't really that much of a near death but it scared me.
Three years ago I was in Cancun with my wife, and we were trying to swim to a sand bar off-shore. The tide was pulling us sideways quite fast, and the sand bar was angling away from us. I was only about 15 feet from the edge of it when I just reached a point where I couldn't go any farther. My wife had made the sandbar and had to turn around to get me. I was just floating. She tried to yell for help but most of the people around us didn't speak English. Finally they figured out what was happening and all I could do was just try and relax enough so I didn't pull them down with me. They pulled me to shore and I had to stay on the edge of the surf for about 45 minutes before I could move. That was probably the scariest as I had basically almost given up, and it seemed to take forever.
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