That's my question, why the #### were they opening the door? Mobs are scary. Mobs dressed as undead or going to be full of idiots.
The driver is laying on the horn and hitting people with his car and not stopping I would open the door too if I were there.
Yeah, seems like the driver instigated with creeping forward and laying on the horn. You're not driving a bulldozer, guy. Once that started people started messing with him.
Either wait or turn around. Or you know, smash everyone I guess.
The driver should not have honked and creeped forward,
but that was not threatening. Trying to open the door and jumping on his hood had to quite frightening...
Blasting your horn and inching your vehicle up close to a crowd of pedestratians isn't threatening?
Actually, no, I don't think it is. I've both walked and driven through the French Quarter many times where cars are trying to get through an area with lots of pedestrians. Surprisingly, inching forward and sometimes honking happens, it's not considered threatening at all, and pedestrians move out of the way and the car moves through. When that happens, you will sometimes hear words exchanged or unkind hand gestures, but that's how "civilized" people handle that kind of relatively common situation.
What you don't see are people reacting to horn honking and inching forward by sitting on the hoods of cars or trying to open car doors.
IMO, lots of blame to go around here:
1) Driver before people sat on his car/knocked on windows/tried to open door -- Could have been more patient or tried to go another route. Could be considered very rude by honking and pulling foward. Not illegal
2) Zombies standing in the road not moving -- Should have been aware that they are holding up traffic and moved. Probably illegal, but not ultimately responsible.
3) 2 idiots that sat on the hood of the car and whoever else started hitting the window -- 100% responsible for the woman's injuries. No matter how much honking the guy is doing, you simply cannot damage or threaten a person in a vehicle in such a manner.
4) Driver after people sat on his car/knocked on windows/tried to open door -- No fault at this point considering the actions of the people listed in #3. In fact, he went straight to a police officer after this happened and he hasn't been arrested. Would seem to me they agree as well.