Toxic Control (1 of 6)
Series: Control Issues
Craig Smith
Exodus 1:1-5
I. Introduction
I’ve really only been in one real car accident. I hadn’t had my driver’s license for very long and this one morning I left my house to go somewhere and I headed down a road called Wilkerson Run...this was in a little town in Ohio. Now Wilkerson Run was a beautiful road. It was long and straight and it had these huge trees lined up on both sides, so driving down it was like driving through a big green tunnel. But it was kind of a narrow road and it didn’t have much of a berm. Where the asphalt ended, there was a two or three inch drop off and then just another foot or so to the trees. So I’m driving on this road and I got distracted by something and I wasn’t paying real close attention and the front right tire of my car slipped off the berm. Now, I wasn’t going all that fast, so if I had just hit the brakes, everything would have been fine. But that’s not what I did. When I felt the tire slip off the berm, I thought, ‘‘I can fix this. I can get my truck - I drove this big old black pickup truck at the time - I thought I can get my truck back under control.’’ So instead of hitting the brakes, I just kept going...but I wrenched the steering wheel back to the left to get the wheel back on the berm. The problem was, I over-corrected...so I got the wheel back up on the road, but at that point, the truck was pointing across the road towards the trees on the left side. So I started spinning the wheel to the right to keep from going off the road on the left...and I over corrected again and was headed towards the trees on the right. Now, at any point, if I had just hit the brakes, everything would have been fine...but at this point, I was panicked and instead of hitting the brakes, I actually stepped on the gas...so now I’m flying across the road towards the trees on the right. So I started spinning the wheel to the left and again, I over corrected....and, I’m still panic-punchi ...
Series: Control Issues
Craig Smith
Exodus 1:1-5
I. Introduction
I’ve really only been in one real car accident. I hadn’t had my driver’s license for very long and this one morning I left my house to go somewhere and I headed down a road called Wilkerson Run...this was in a little town in Ohio. Now Wilkerson Run was a beautiful road. It was long and straight and it had these huge trees lined up on both sides, so driving down it was like driving through a big green tunnel. But it was kind of a narrow road and it didn’t have much of a berm. Where the asphalt ended, there was a two or three inch drop off and then just another foot or so to the trees. So I’m driving on this road and I got distracted by something and I wasn’t paying real close attention and the front right tire of my car slipped off the berm. Now, I wasn’t going all that fast, so if I had just hit the brakes, everything would have been fine. But that’s not what I did. When I felt the tire slip off the berm, I thought, ‘‘I can fix this. I can get my truck - I drove this big old black pickup truck at the time - I thought I can get my truck back under control.’’ So instead of hitting the brakes, I just kept going...but I wrenched the steering wheel back to the left to get the wheel back on the berm. The problem was, I over-corrected...so I got the wheel back up on the road, but at that point, the truck was pointing across the road towards the trees on the left side. So I started spinning the wheel to the right to keep from going off the road on the left...and I over corrected again and was headed towards the trees on the right. Now, at any point, if I had just hit the brakes, everything would have been fine...but at this point, I was panicked and instead of hitting the brakes, I actually stepped on the gas...so now I’m flying across the road towards the trees on the right. So I started spinning the wheel to the left and again, I over corrected....and, I’m still panic-punchi ...
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