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it basically boils down to reflexs and experience. if you've been through a lot of interesting scenarios in your life, including emergency and non-emergency situations, you are better prepared (in my opinion). the more "sheltered" type who have never had to go through anything traumatic have no idea what to do and just stand there in a daze. I remember my first car accident - at the beach on vacation with my mom. Me, my brother and sister were in the car with my mom. We plowed into a van because the person in FRONT of the van stopped in the middle of the intersection after the light had turned green. Everyone was accelerating (directly into each other apparently). Anyway, me nor my brother had seatbelts on. My brother got his face hurt pretty bad (fucked up his teeth) but I was ok, just hit my head sort of hard on the seat in front of me. I just sat there after it happened.
The NEXT car crash I had, I plowed into my best friend's car. He got out, started mumbling about how he was sorry (it was his fault, stopped on purpose in the road to scare me......scared me alright) and how he would fix it, attempted to even pull the bumper back out and stretch the *metal* quarter-panel back into it's original shape, etc. I just grabbed the pieces, through them in my car, and we left. I don't even think my heart rate when up.
same goes with reflexes on the highway and similar situations. if you are used to hydroplaning, driving in snow, sliding in snow, then you react calmly in those situations. like my business professor said, "firestone didn't kill people, people not knowing how to handle a blow-out killed people." it's all about experience.
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