I once hit a patch of ice on the road going downhill, spun out of control. I was half a second from my driver's side door hitting a telephone pole or from going head first into a 2ft thick concrete wall, depending on how far I'd slide... but my car got stuck on a section of high curb a half-second from hitting either. I walked away with only a few scratches under the doors. I call it divine intervention, but others called it luck. There were no skills involved though.