The claim that Nigel Farage does not believe being hit and nearly killed by a car changed him at all rests on a single December 2011 interview quote: "I don't think that changed me a bit." However, Farage's own extensive public statements before and after that interview contradict this assertion. A BBC News profile (drawing on a London Evening Standard interview) reports that Farage said the experience of his car accident and cancer changed him: "I think it's made me more 'me' than I was before, to be honest. Even more fatalistic. Even more convinced it's not a dress rehearsal. Even more driven than I was before. And I am driven." The BBC explicitly frames this as his account of how his road accident affected him. In extracts from his 2015 memoir *The Purple Revolution*, Farage wrote that the car accident profoundly shaped him: "I was far more shaped by the car accident in my twenties than the plane crash. I resolved then that I didn't have time to waste and that I really needed to achieve something important — more important than earning money." He also wrote: "having nearly died three times has made me a much bigger risk-taker... When you think your life is about to be taken away and you are given it back, you just want to get on and do things." The Mirror and other outlets report he has "previously spoken about how, out of all his many dealings with near-death, the initial car crash affected him the most, driving him to give up stockbroking and launch his political career." The Evening Standard quote reported by BBC is consistent with the view that Farage had, even before the 2011 interview, described the car accident as changing him. Since this is a claim about Farage's own state of mind, his own repeated statements are the most direct evidence available, and the weight of his consistent testimony contradicts the 2011 assertion that it "didn't change me a bit." Sources: - BBC News, "The Nigel Farage story" — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36701855 - Telegraph, "Sixteen things we learned from Nigel Farage's new book, The Purple Revolution" — https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11469653/Sixteen-things-we-learned-from-Nigel-Farages-new-book-The-Purple-Revolution.html - Mirror, "Nigel Farage's 4 brushes with death and fears over 'tampered' car" — https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-4-brushes-death-32974350 - London Evening Standard / The Standard, "Nigel Farage: have you met the cretins in Westminster?" — https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/nigel-farage-have-you-met-the-cretins-in-westminster-our-candidates-can-t-be-any-worse-than-them-8594647.html