Tonight's programme includes a gas explosion that buries a woman under a block of flats; a birthday treat which goes disastrously wrong when a skydiver passes out 12,000ft up; and a runaway motorboat that causes havoc and injury off the coast of Devon.

Tonight's programme features a video recording of what happened when a 5-year-old boy toppled into a zoo's gorilla pit. As ambulance crews and a zoo keeper tried to save him, an eyewitness filmed the rescue bid. Plus a bizarre accident that left a motorist impaled on a 40ft scaffolding pole; and the fishing trip which put two men at the centre of a massive search and rescue operation.

Tonight's programme reveals how a Sunday afternoon stroll turned into a desperate struggle against time and tide, and how one man risked his life by driving his blazing truck away from a crowded town centre.

In tonight's programme, when a lift jams between floors in an Edinburgh tower block, a young man panics and climbs onto the lift roof. What happens next leaves him hanging over a 100ft drop as firefighters begin one of their most daring rescues. And a look at how two navy divers set out to save 40 men, women and children from a sinking ship off the Devon coast, but end up having to be rescued themselves.

This week a young Scottish couple and their baby are trapped in their car by giant waves. Coastguards are forced to mount a daring and unusual rescue. In Wales, when a climbing accident leaves one man dangling by a rope from a sheer cliff face, his friend goes for help and faces an agonising ordeal.

Tonight: a dramatic rescue in the skies above Wales as a trainee pilot has to be "talked down" to safety after the death of his instructor; and in Somerset a farmer fights his way back to health after an accident that leaves him with a broken back.

Tonight: a diver's face mask shatters after an accident and with precious oxygen escaping from his tanks, his workmates have only a few seconds to get him to the safety of a diving bell; and a Birmingham woman jumps from her burning home carrying a baby in her arms, when flames cut her off from the rest of her children.