You were certainly lucky.
I've had a couple of "near death experiences".
First one was when I was very, very young... I can't remember my exact age, but I was definitely an infant. I was at some kind of event with my parents, and I had somehow managed to toddle off into a swimming pool and must have gone under. Now clearly I wasn't able to swim at that point, and I was told that I was just flailing around until my dad jumped in and pulled me out. They eventually cleared my lungs.
Second one was when I used to play hockey for my school. We were on a trip to the Netherlands to play some of the teams there (it's their national sport, and they were crazy-good). I was in town with a couple of my friends and we had somehow managed to slip down a side alley. Anyway, some older kid and his friends came up to us and he grabbed me by my neck, and started yelling at me in Dutch. I had no idea what he was saying, but he brandished a knife on me and started waving it around at me and my friends. At this point, my friends ran off out of fear and I had the sense to slam my elbow into his ribs and I literally sprinted all the way back to the hotel. I'm guessing he wanted money or something.
Not sure if the second one counts, as he may not have used the knife. *shrug* The amusing thing is that I've never been mugged, or attempted to be mugged, in England. Yet I spend one week in Holland and I'm assaulted. :O
I'll let you guys know when I suffer a horrific car accident and come out unscathed.