I've always wondered why characters in TV shows, movies and even real life when trying to outrun something traveling or falling in a straight line, such as a train or a tower don't just jump or run to the side to safety (when there is no obstructions) where the danger won't get them,
instead of staying on the path of the object. It then dawned on me: People's prehistoric natural instinct to run from danger is set up for fleeing living predators such as cougars which can follow their prey, and turning could slow you down, allowing the predator to catch up. Inanimate objects traveling in a straight line wasn't as common a danger, so our instincts by default don't take them in consideration, so our minds still treat the train, tower, etc as a living
predator which would folow our turns, so our instincts still by default still tell us to keep running in a straight line, in order to try to maintain a speed/distance advantage over the 'predator' chasing us, even if it's the wrong decision. Fear can cloud judgement, preventing people from
overriding this "default" and think "Hey, the big falling tower can't turn around and get me, if I just start moving to the side it won't follow me and I may live to see tommorrow"