Originally Posted by smooth

I suspect that this driver hasn't had that experience too often in his life, if ever. I don't know the hows or the whys of his involvement in a 100+ mph police pursuit, but I am confident that when the chase ended, the driver probably thought to himself that the gig was up. He'd stand up, dust himself off, and take his lumps (figureatively or literally, who knows) and be done with the stupidity of the situation he probably accidentally got himself into due to a stupid split second decision that he was laying there regretting. And he was almost positively laying there thinking about all this through a haze of pain and discomfort. So it's not unreasonable to think that he may or may not have heard the police officer at all, much less whether he said to do or do not get up. And it seems to me that someone in that situation would think to himself that he just needs to make his intentions clear: hey man, I'm just going to get up, ok? and think that's good nuff. because after all, he's one of the good guys, one of us, just a regular joe going about his business after a car accident.