<i>It probably should be something like &quot;newspaper employees attempt to run over Tesla security guards&quot;.</i><p>&quot;Run over&quot;? The Tesla statement asserts they &quot;accelerated into&quot; the victims in both cases.  Which is pretty nasty, but quite different from &quot;running them over.&quot;<p>You can&#x27;t even infer that it was an &quot;attempt&quot; to run over the persons who were struck, from the information given.  Most likely the driver simply panicked, and was trying to make some crazy Y turn to get the hell out of there -- without of course slowing down to look at who might have been in front of, or behind him.<p>Not that that&#x27;s any excuse.  The driver&#x27;s actions appear to have been highly reckless, to say the least.  But there&#x27;s no point in playing this episode up into something that it wasn&#x27;t.