How to difference Past Indefinit and Past Perfect?
There is a task in my grammar book - "Put the verb in the brackets into the correct form Past Indefinite or Past Perfect".
There is a sentece:
1. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier ________(break) his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we _______(stop) to let them pass.
My version is established below:
2. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier broke his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we had stopped to let them pass.
The version in the key book is presented below:
3. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier had broken his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we stopped to let them pass.
Why I made those mistakes? May be there is a perfect rule to difference tenses Past Perfect and Past Indefinite?

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It's very tricky! It's all about time. If you had stopped before the guy broke his leg you would use past perfect. But you stopped AFTER he broke his leg so you use the past indefinite...

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