They did injure at least two people with a car and one of them was while reversing.  Because you normally don&#x27;t accelerate while reversing, I think it will be hard for them to call this an accident if the physical evidence corroborates Tesla&#x27;s version of the story.<p>If it were just one person, I&#x27;d be more inclined to claim it was purely accidental.  Once there were two separate incidents where they hit someone, the claim of it being an accident gets less credible.  I can believe that they might have been afraid, but attacking someone with a car is deadly force (as is confirmed by the charges).<p>So, at minimum, they&#x27;d have to show that the Tesla guards were trying to kill them or inflict grievous bodily harm.  The fact that they did not allege any injury to themselves is going to really hurt their case unless they have some kind of evidence that they reasonably feared for their lives.<p>I&#x27;ll reserve judgement until we hear more facts, but the uncontested parts of the story currently indicate that the driver is in big trouble.  If new facts or evidence do not come to light, I would reasonable expect them to go to prison, barring a plea deal.  The passenger is probably ok, though, other than trespass.