That's what you should have stated initially, isn't it?
My concern was the claim this ol'gal was trying to run him down, yet a passenger was shot ~ from the side door. You'll find that somewhere in the vicinity of the first full description of the event a Freeper used the term 'run over', which may be more applicable than 'run down', since 'run down' necessarily implies some sense of steering toward a target, whereas 'run over' could simply have you trundled under the tires.