I fully support EarlyApex.

This case has nada to do with a US litigation mentality. It is mere common sense... If what I read about the case is factual, IMNSHO there is a CAUSAL link between this test driver's behaviour and the lady's panick reaction..... How about if I arrive with my car at one of you guys crossing the street as pedestrians and me ensuring that I brake agressively just until at say 1 meter of you (at legal speed but braking with smoking tires), scaring the sh.. out of you, which causes you to run and brake your neck????? Clearly, I did not push you, but would you not believe that I am guilty of your accident? And what if I drove away after having done this to you?