Although Winston Churchill fought on the NW Frontier and at the battle of Omdurman, became a prisoner in the Boer War, commanded a battalion in the trenches of WWI, and took many international trips during WWII ...

http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/64331767768/historic...

his closest brush with death came in New York in 1931, when he stepped out into traffic looking the wrong way, and was hit by a taxi ...

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/fin...