After Escaping from a derailed train, he cheated death in a plane that lost its door. Then came a near-death bus crash, a flaming car and then another 2 car accidents.

Is it any wonder his luck eventually lead him to a million dollar lottery win?

Frane’s Story

Frane Selak is a Croatian music teacher who became infamous in his own country due to his many close calls with destiny. Frane was in so many unlucky incidents that almost claimed his life, so many times, that many people were calling him the unluckiest man in the world.

In 1962, on a train journey from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik, the train was derailed and plunged into a river of ice.

The crash killed 17 unfortunate passengers but Salak escaped with just one broken arm and minor cuts and bruises.

In 1963 while travelling from Zagreb to Rijeka Slaek’s plane lost its cockpit door plunging the plane to ground and 19 passengers to their deaths. Salek suffered minor injuries after landing in a haystack.

In 1966 his bus veered off the road and into a river killing 4 passengers but leaving Salek in one piece.

In 1970 he exited his car just in time just before its eroded fuel pump ignited the entire vehicle and made it burst into flames.

1973 another flaming car incident claimed only his hair.

In 1995 he was hit by a speeding bus which miraculously left him unscathed.

Then in 1996 he evaded death again from a fast approaching truck by driving his car off a cliff. Amazingly he fell out of his car into a tree and simply watched as the vehicle fell 300 feet to the ground and exploded in a shower of sparks and flames.

From Bad Luck to Good

Many people claimed that Frane was the unluckiest man in the world.

However, Frane knows differently.

He claims that God was looking after him throughout all those years and saved him.

So he was not at all surprised when he won $1 million dollars in the Croatian lottery in 2003.

Frane, like some others, consider that he is actually not the unluckiest man in the world but is, surely, the luckiest!