The claim that Nigel Farage was nearly killed by a car at age 21 is true, supported by multiple credible sources. **Age at the time:** Nigel Farage was born on 3 April 1964. The accident occurred in 1985, making him 21 years old. **The accident and its severity:** BBC News reports that "in his early 20s, he had the first of several brushes with death, when he was run over by a car in Orpington, Kent, after a night in the pub. He sustained severe injuries and doctors feared he would lose a leg." GB News reports he was "smashed to bits," spent two months in hospital, and had his leg in a cast for a year. Farage himself described the impact as sending him "into the air, landing on his head as it hit the curb." In his 2015 memoir *The Purple Revolution*, Farage titled an extract about the incident: "A car crash nearly killed me, but at least I got a wife out of it." **Consistency with the interview context:** The reference to alcohol ("English ale and Irish whiskey") is consistent with BBC's reporting that the accident occurred "after a night in the pub." The claim that the car "nearly killed" Farage is supported both by the severity of injuries (two months hospitalized, doctors fearing leg amputation, head impact) and by Farage's own characterization of the event. Sources: - BBC News, "The Nigel Farage story" — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36701855 - GB News, "Nigel Farage reflects life 40 years after horror crash" — https://www.gbnews.com/news/nigel-farage-reflects-40-years-horror-crash-count-blessings - The Telegraph (via Internet Archive), "Nigel Farage: A car crash nearly killed me, but at least I got a wife out of it" — https://web.archive.org/web/20150416154302/http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11466527/Nigel-Farage-A-car-crash-nearly-killed-me-but-at-least-I-got-a-wife-out-of-it.html - Wikipedia, "Nigel Farage" (birth date confirmation) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage