Nigel Farage experienced two well-documented serious accidents. The first was a car accident on 25 November 1985, when Farage was struck by a Volkswagen Beetle in Orpington and suffered severe injuries, nearly losing his left leg. The second occurred on 6 May 2010, election day in the UK, when a light aircraft (a PZL-104 Wilga 35A) he was riding in crashed at Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield in Northamptonshire after a campaign banner became entangled in the tail fin. Farage suffered broken ribs, a chipped spine, and other injuries. In the December 2011 interview, Farage's reference to "this second accident" clearly points to the 2010 plane crash as the second incident. Both accidents are corroborated by multiple reputable sources, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). Sources: - BBC News, "UKIP banner caused Nigel Farage plane crash" — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-11730133 - BBC News, "The Nigel Farage story" — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36701855 - The Guardian, "Ukip's Nigel Farage injured in aeroplane crash" — https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/06/ukip-nigel-farage-plane-crash - The Telegraph, "Nigel Farage: A car crash nearly killed me" — https://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 - Aviation Safety Network, "Accident PZL-104 Wilga 35A G-BWDF, 6 May 2010" — https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/74210 - Wikipedia, "Nigel Farage" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage