German Schoolboy Hit By Meteorite & Lives!

The size of a pea, by the time it reached him, it still managed to leave a 5cm scar on the hand of Gerrit Blank, and a 30cm-wide crater in the pavement.

While this is the sort of "happy story" that you sometimes get at the end of news bulletins, it is only so due to the fact he lived, and the rarity of the situation. If a town/city is ever struck my a large meteorite, it will be a tragedy.

In recorded history he seems to be the person who has come off best from such a cosmic collision. According to Wikipedia:

The only other human confirmed to be struck and injured by a meteor was 31 year old Ann Hodges, of Sylacauga, Alabama. She was struck while asleep in bed on November 30, 1954, after the meteorite punched through the roof of her home, smashed a wooden cabinet, and then bounced off the floor to struck her in the hand and hip. The meteorite, which weighed about eight and a half pounds, caused extensive bruising.