It was 1:30 am, there weren’t a lot of citizens out and about.
If you’re going to start making up stuff perhaps you should help the officer with his creative report writing.
And yes, I think that cops should not kill people unless absolutely necessary.
There are not usually a lot of people on the road that time of night but some traffic should be expected. Those leaving a bar a bit early, a shift worker at a local plant or mini mart headed home or to work, a waitress who just picked up her kids from the babysitter on her way home or even the babysitter on the way home from the waitresses house.
It is surly not illegal to be driving in a residential area at that time. In most cities it is not considered illadvisable to be driving to or from work or an outing with friends at that time of night. If this would have continued she would have found other people on the streets.