And if one "manages to do it twice", does it mean the dormice choose to cross the road only once, or does it actually mean that none of them survive a second attempt at crossing the road?

Cooper has not been seen since and it is not known whether he survived the jump.

But if we are lucky enough to survive these accidents, we become better drivers.

If anybody had bothered to pull her out of the street after she was hit the first time she presumably would have survived.

That kind of size makes them a favorite of nervous drivers - if an SUV hits another car, the SUV driver is much more likely to survive.