So, after a few hours of mucking around I have a basic scene with all the elements required for the game.  I just need to add collision detection.  Aligning the cars to the road normal directly under the car is probably sufficient enough.  The player will just walk ontop of the level.

I would really like to add rag doll physics to make the event of the car hitting you a bit more dramatic then a game over screen.  That is going to be my primary objective in the next day after adding the basic collision detection.  That way I wont have to scrap my entry entirely just because i dont have physics implemented.