from your posted article:
“Fifteen seconds was plenty of time to get out of the way, but for someone doing a video, their first reaction might be to get some video. “
y’all will have to slow this new perspective down to 50percent speed to see it, but watch carefully and you can clearly see what I think is Diaz, dressed in all black, step directly into the path of the vehicle that would not have struck her had she stood still or taken a step the other way
time stamp 18 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOHxz8nnzk&t=19s
I watched it last night, and just watched it again. The two are in the middle of the road...the one on the right is in light colored clothing, the other to the left of her is all in black. They are both walking. The one in light colored clothes looks like she’s walking right into his path. He hit her first, then got the one in black right after. It is pretty horrific to watch. The sound of the impact is unbelievable. How many lawsuits will there be against the city for letting them congregate on that highway? I guess the mothers of these morons never told them of the dangers of playing in the street. They are dumber than a box of rocks, and the sad part is that they actually think the rest of us would ever let them take over this country. We’d die first.
the parked cars seem to be placed so as to force oncoming automobiles into the slow emergency lane to the right. there do not seem to be any warning signs or warning flashers. there does not seem to be any special illumination. the illumination seems all coming from standard freeway lightposts at regularly spaced intervals for urban freeways. this seems certainly not a standard roadblock or traffic funnel imho— imho, it is poorly designed and poorly managed from a safety point of view.
initially, at 0:00 through 0:05, pedestrians seem to be milling around without taking any particular notice. this is imho a very serious safety issue. most of the pedestrians are dressed in black, another serious safety issue.
the first notice by onlookers from movement seems to be at about 0:06. most onlookers seem to start to move out of the way by 0:09. most onlookers seem to be out of the way by 0:18. the two women seem to move towards the slow lane as if to get into the slow emergency lane, then they both change direction, imho probably in response to the automobile change in direction to avoid the pedestrians in the slow emergency lane directly in front of him, reversing his steering back into the slow lane. so, i think it is possible that the women were not so much challenging the automobile so much as off to a late start in reacting, and then moving in the wrong direction for the auto driver reaction to other pedestrians.
the impacts seem to be at 0:19.
i think that the first public video shows the victims moving obliquely towards the auto.
in either case, both women seem to demonstrate a serious lack of situational awareness to the danger that they have placed themselves in, and much more so than most if not all other pedestrians at the scene.
if they had been doing this or something similar for 19 days in a row, then it is amazing that the leaders did not know or care about the dangers to which the protesters were exposed. perhaps they were becoming complacent and emboldened by their own actions and the apparent lack of any injurious consequences of their actions.