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When I was about 12, I read in my parents' paper that the most common cause of death to pedestrians in road accidents was not the impact with a vehicle but the head on the road surface when falling. I thought the answer would be to avoid hitting the road by jumping up & hanging no. For years, I would look at cars etc & decide where I could grab if I jumped. (trolleybuses were a problem as they had a flat front, but I thought I could hang on to the window rail just above the driver's head). Some 5 or 6 years later,, I was caught (on the B158) in the dark behind a car as another car ran into the back: I saw the headlights coming & instinctively jumped, landing on the bonnet of the oncoming vehicle, sliding up to the widscreen, much to the surprise of the lady driving. I kept my legs: there is an irony now in that I have had a stroke & virtually lost their use, but have had 50 years activity.