Sentence examples for down a pedestrian from inspiring English sources

She had grown up in Australia where she was the first woman motorist to run down a pedestrian.

For instance, if a self-driving vehicle decides to run down a pedestrian, who will be held accountable?

During my months in court, I endured City Attorneys defending a driver's right to run down a pedestrian with her car, while refusing to charge her with anything.

The driver of a black BMW ran a red light, knocked down a pedestrian and broadsided a school bus that was returning students to Roosevelt High School, according to Miguel Luevano, a California Highway Patrol spokesman.

The first time Mr. Barakat mowed down a pedestrian in the game, he said, "we thought it was funny".

Driving away at high speed, the Citroën ran down a pedestrian, also reported to be in a serious condition.

Its return on equity for its African business would have been a respectable 13% in the first half of last year, had write-downs on the goodwill on its acquisitions not pushed it down to a pedestrian 10.6%.Building from scratch is not easy, either.

And while Duchovny and Anderson do stellar work revisiting their iconic characters, the screenplay, by Carter and the "X-Files" alumnus Frank Spotnitz, lets them down with a pedestrian, unengaging plot.

Looking down from a pedestrian bridge at trams and taxis negotiating their way through streets lined with office buildings and chain restaurants, the overriding impression is of a prosperous, friendly city that has come to terms with its past.

If a car is bearing down on a pedestrian, she said, you don't yell, hey, "Force equals mass times acceleration". You give them something they can use, like hey, get out of the way.

Bourdain slowed down to ask a pedestrian for directions, and the man indicated that, to reach the Metropole Hotel, we should hang a left around Hoàn Kiếm Lake.