Yes--or at least you'd expect everyone in the line of fire to be wounded from the same direction.
How did you reach your conclusion about the car stopping when the engine block was penetrated?
Soldier reports combined with the picture of the car.
Her story is not consistent with the available facts, as meager as they are.
As I said, I want a view inside the front engine compartment to confirm.
The bullet patterns that are present are at an angle consistent with someone in front of the car at medium range...50-30'.
Had the vehicle stopped on it's own, the bullet holes would be more widespread instead of the very few visible outside the grillwork of the car. The grillwork isn't very clear...but everything else seems very consistent with the story from the US Forces.
All said and told, that car appears to me to have stopped due to a number of shots into the engine compartment.