My mind was focused on / was attentive to / was mesmerized by just fixed to this voice and everything stopped. The old man was so fixed with intent on the idea of killing me that he was not aware of what was happening around him and could did not hear the horn of the truck coming at us. Although truck had braked abruptly to try to avoid all of us the old man , but it couldn't swerve and pass by us, so that it crush ed the old man into the road.
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