Kindness of strangers: a woman laid down on the road beside me, holding my hand until the ambulance came

After I was hit by a car, Sophia seemed to understand that I needed the safety of someone being right there at eye level

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I could see the car and knew I was going to hit it. People ask: did your life flash before your eyes? It didn’t. The only thing I remember thinking was: “oh well”. In an instant all those things I’d been worrying about until that point didn’t matter, because I was about to die. Oh well!

There was nothing I could do. I was on my motorbike on a dark and rainy night in rush hour traffic when a car pulled across into my lane without looking. I couldn’t avoid hitting it, I couldn’t break, I was going to hit the car and I was going to die.