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[quote user="greyhounds"] <blockquote>Why do drivers (including myself) insist on staying on the road and in their lane when doing so is disaster in the making?  Instead of turning the wheel and taking the lesser of two evils.</blockquote>  [/quote] Unless you can head off into a level field without much of a ditch, going into the ditch with a big truck at 70-mph is the certain disaster once you decide to do it.  Whereas, sticking with the long skid may not be a disaster at all if you get stopped in time.  And you won’t know whether or not you will be able get stopped in time in the first half or so of the skid.  <o:p></o:p> If it then becomes apparent that hitting the train is inevitable, there may only be 150 feet left to go.  At that point, if you take the ditch, you will still probably hit the train anyway if the ditch does not kill you before you get to the train.  I don’t know what the ditch looks like at the Nevada site, but there was one reference to the shoulders being only about three feet wide.    <o:p></o:p> I think most drivers can and do instantly weigh the pros and cons of trying to dodge a collision.<o:p></o:p>
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