Yesterday Rob and I were in the supermarket parking lot, when a car we were walking past started backing up. We were trying to get out of the way but we were like, a foot and a half from the car when it started moving so Rob was yelling “HEY HEY STOP” and I was trying to pull him out of the way (we were moving as fast as we could). The car actually hit Rob before he had a chance to get all the way out of the way. Not that hard, because it had just started backing up and wasn’t going that quickly, but yeah, it hit him. And THEN the driver stopped and looked back (he had been looking straight ahead the entire time, and didn’t even have a rearview mirror), then when he saw that we were out of the way, didn’t stop and see if Rob was okay or anything, just kept backing up, then took off.
Anyway, Rob’s fine (except just now he banged his knee on the corner of the sofa) but some people need to check behind them before they start backing up.
In such cases, banging on the trunk of the car usually helps. (Do not kick car. Generally results in sore foot. I speak from experience.)