yeah, try to turn a little so you land on your back a little. Extending a hand can lead to wrist fractures, and landing on your shoulder point can break a collarbone ... but usually clip-falls happen at a quarter-mile per hour, so you are only falling about five feet. Still enough it hurt.

The most important part is to get up not looking at all sheepish. Act like it is normal ... that way when those drivers see others of us fall they will be less inclined to laugh .... hopefully.