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If you are hit by a high speed car whist a pedestrian do your feet shrink (and subsequently lose your shoes)?

My friends and I saw an internet rumour that when pedestrians are hit by fast cars there feet rapidly shrink which is why the shoes are often lost and could not find a definitive answer and opinion was divided. Two of the people present had also heard this before so we could not dismiss it as a one off. As an addition does this also apply to the driver?
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 translatrix says:

I don't think that's possible. A person I know was hit by a car in summer and she told me a lot of things but nothing about losing her shoes.

Shock does drain the extremities from blood, but I suppose usually that will just make the feet pale and cool but not much smaller. Maybe if someone has swollen feet?

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posted on 2010-12-07 17:34:12 | Report abuse

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 translatrix says:

Although... on second thought, those shoes you slip into and out of without fastening anything - they might require only a very small change in volume to fall off...

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posted on 2010-12-07 20:14:25 | Report abuse

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