"Obviously he realised he hit someone but "may not have realised" that he was driving so close to a child that he hit her in the face. Really? :-/"
I'm not saying that it exonerates him! But yeah, it's possible (and therefore dangerous driving) that he was driving so badly, and without paying attention, then heard the bang and put 2 an d2 together to come up with 5.
Equally the story says nothing about exactly where on the road etc this all took place. He'd have to be driving virtually along the kerb, with the girl virtually along the kerb (and ducking if it's a 'standard' car) to hit her in such a way.
Devil's Advocate.. Group of kids messing about, I'm sure we've all seen it happen, one gets pushed towards the traffic as a 'joke' (usually being kept hold of). Could eaily go wrong, girl is pushed into car, stumbling, falls to the level of the wing mirror and gets smacked by it. Driver has been driving along the road, not expecting (again, quite poor when there's a group of kids on the pavement) anything untoward might happen - here's the bang, thinks something has been thrown at the car. Hence the remonstrating.
It's the remonstration that gets me. I mean, I've been shouted at by someone clearly covering up that they were in the wrong. But actually stopping and remonstrating with the kids, shouting at them that they had hit his car, does seem to me to be the act of someone who hadn't realised what had happened (whether that was down to his actions or those of the kids).
In short (thankfully!) there's actually too little detail in the article to be able to tell...
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