Impact: Stories of Survival
2002
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 30 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Documentary
Impact: Stories of Survival is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on and was produced by the Discovery Health Channel. The program is based on life-threatening situations in which the victim experienced a moment of impact. Featuring video of the event, reenactments, and interviews with surgeons, doctors, and the victims, Impact takes its viewers through the full process of the victims impact, treatment and recovery. There is also a segment where a computerized animation shows in detail how the impact affected the victim's body showing how and to what extent bones, organs, veins, etc. were injured.
Seasons
Season 1
High speed boat crash; Man scaled when pipe bursts; Luge racer Anne Abernathy crashes; Paramedic hit by racecar
Season 2
Marlin spears woman through the chest; Gunman shoots employee twice at close range with a shotgun; Rock climber falls and lands on head; Luge crash nearly severs a man's foot
Season 3
Woman bitten in face by mountain lion while biking; Human cannonball overshoots landing pad and hits ground at 60 MPH; Man impaled through head by boat anchor; Rescue helicopter crashes into mountainside and rolls over crew member
Network
Discovery Health Channel