Consider that you’re watching a person react while you’re in a totally calm state of mind, and prepared for what you’re going to see.
You can see them react to the car, step in front of it and hit it. To me the appearance is of a person who sees the cars motion as the source of danger, so they react to that. A moment passes and you can see the priorities sorting as they see the kids getting up, the cart still in the road, the lost shoe, and the panicked looking driver.
They’re running around a lot, but they’re holding one of the children within 10 seconds of the incident.
It might not be the perfect response in hindsight, but “car danger: make car stop. Now driver danger: make driver stop” is not an unreasonable first reaction. Particularly if you don’t know if the driver saw the accident and is going to just hit them, pause and then keep going, or realize what he’s done and then flee, running them over.
Consider that you’re watching a person react while you’re in a totally calm state of mind, and prepared for what you’re going to see.
You can see them react to the car, step in front of it and hit it. To me the appearance is of a person who sees the cars motion as the source of danger, so they react to that. A moment passes and you can see the priorities sorting as they see the kids getting up, the cart still in the road, the lost shoe, and the panicked looking driver.
They’re running around a lot, but they’re holding one of the children within 10 seconds of the incident.
It might not be the perfect response in hindsight, but “car danger: make car stop. Now driver danger: make driver stop” is not an unreasonable first reaction. Particularly if you don’t know if the driver saw the accident and is going to just hit them, pause and then keep going, or realize what he’s done and then flee, running them over.