Nothing will guarantee that you won't get run over. There were two
incidents within walking distance of my house where a driver came
right through the wall of a building.
By great good luck, the boy who usually slept in the room that one
driver demolished was elsewhere that night.
The other driver smashed through the wall of a tavern. With even
better luck, nobody was in the space the car came to occupy -- one
patron told many times how he had been about to walk through that
space when an acquaintance spoke to him and he turned back.
Sometimes the inhabitants of the building aren't lucky, and then the
incident gets into the newspapers.
So does this mean that taking a nap in the middle of a road is just as
sensible as sleeping in your own bed?
You can't guarantee absolute safety, but learning how things work and
behaving sensibly can improve your odds.
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