Horns blared as startled drivers protested this dangerous maneuver.

But these cannot prevent a startled sleeping driver from overcompensating and crashing.

The startled driver did stop, so suddenly the vehicle nearly slewed sideways.

Saul peered into the headlights to his right, and bundled himself across the road, passing like a discarded coat in wind before the windscreens of startled drivers.

Their taxi's startled driver barely avoided being broadsided by a Thums Up cola truck; it was as big and bright red as a fire engine.

"Keep the hundred dollars," she told the startled driver.

The startled driver did as he was told.

He saw the murderous go-between leap, gun in hand, toward the startled driver of a parked taxicab.

The startled driver complied, and Condon darted from the bus, though Condon's target eluded him.

The door closed, and the startled driver heard a sharp command to drive onward.