I'd take that one with a pinch of salt. If there was no other cars on the roads why didn't he take the hint. The minute that 1st tree fell in front of him he should've left the car there and went over to the articulated lorry which he eventually got in to in the end. He'd still have a car then. By slamming it in to reverse (On a motorway was it? What did he hope to do, go the wrong way 'till he got to a slip off the motorway?) he put the 2 girls lives at risk if ya ask me. He'd also still have a car.