I sympathise with people working in stressful environments.
Stress should be constantly assessed to avoid situations like the one we are talking about.
If he wanted to see his family again, he could have taken a step to the right.
It seems to me you'd prefer to incentivize taking peoples head off their shoulders instead of taking a step to the right.
Now dad has to come home and explain to his wife and children how a car, that he made a decision to stand in front of ( against his training I'm presuming), moving at bumfuck mph, driven by a soccer mom, caused him enough terror to kill her.
And now his kids have to listen to "isnt your dad the guy who killed the lady?"