Answer: Um... What is actually the question?
a. The car skidded, luckily no one was near it.
There are four ways to correct a run-on sentence. You can separate it into two sentences, use a semi-colon, use a semi-colon with a conjunctive adverb or use a comma and a coordinating conduction.You can't simply use a comma.
Because Thorton was trying to protect a tenderfoot that burton was fighting with. So Burten took it out on thorton instead. Hope this helps!!