Mrs. Luta was driving near the center of 20th Avenue with the left wheels of her car about 2 feet over the centerline. As she entered the block where the accident occurred, she testified that the speed of her car got up to 12 to 15 miles per hour.
As she proceeded up the block to the point where the accident occurred, Mrs. Luta saw several children playing on the gas company platform when she was approximately one car length, or 17 or 18 feet, south from the platform. When she noticed the children, she said that she saw one of them jump from either the platform or the steps, and that she immediately applied the brakes on her car. She claims that the child was "lost in thecars" and that she waited to see where he was going to come out. She said that when she again observed the child he was pretty close to the street to her left, "running with all his might."
At the time that she made her second observation she said she was applying the brakes on her car, which was still moving. When asked about speed, she replied, "Well, at that time it wasn't very much, because *237 that was almost when  it happened so quickly. He hit the side of the car and I was stopped at the same time." She said that when she made that observation it was just a couple of seconds before the impact; that she thought her car was almost stopped at that