"...Biglan drove through a post office parking space, over the curb and across a freeway.
She then hit a Ford Explorer and backed over another sidewalk before finally crashing into a flowerpot in a gas station's parking lot."
OK, repeat after me: "In situations like this, if I have an automatic, neutral is my friend. If it's a stick, the clutch is my friend. Then turn the key to off."
I'd rather pay for pranged valve springs than risk killing somebody.