People's threat perception is such an easy mechanism to manipulate. Here we have a very real road traffic accident. Reports suggest she hit one person accidentally and in panic hit more.
If this were just reported as a simple road traffic accident, it would barely blip on people's radar despite the fact that road traffic deaths are a genuine everyday danger that really we should all take considerably more seriously.
I spent a week at a surfing camp in Australia a couple of years back, and one of my friends was obsessed with the danger of being attacked by a shark. The trip to the beach in the minibus was the most dangerous part of that week.
This incident is likely to spark more conversations about Islam and the far right than any discussion on road traffic safety which is by several magnitudes a much greater danger.