Well this particular MMIWG Canada Summer Jobs project
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70280mostly happened because Toronto Star reporter
David Bruser's December 2015
article on three missing and murdered indigenous women from
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation mentioned
one of them got struck and killed on a Alberta highwy
in the 1970s
a matter of personal connection since my father got struck and killed
as well.
So from dads 150 Accident Reconstruction Report
I can say the human center of gravity
is about located around the belly button
Likely a child (lower center of gravity )
being impacted by a vehicles leading edge
likely would get
dragged under
rather then getting flung up into the air
by the impact