The next time the cops are hot on your heels, remember the "bootlegger's K-turn" so you can get away without the other car crashing into you.
Blogger Brooke Allen provides this illustration and explanation:
One of the best ways to put distance between you and the police is to reverse directions after a curve on a narrow road where the cops miss a turn-around and have to back up or go a long way to another one. In the normal K-Turn you pull into a driveway on the opposite side of the street (A), back up (B), and then hopefully wave at the cops as you wiz past while they are still trying to cock their guns.
But the problem with the normal K-Turn is that the cop cars have a habit of crashing into you at point B. But with the Bootlegger's K-Turn at point (B) you're in the opposite lane from the cops so you have less of a chance of a crack-up.
This works for getting away from non-police cars chasing you as well, but more practically it's also a smarter way to do a K-turn (aka 3-point turn) if you don't want to possibly get hit from behind.
The K-turn wasn't the point of Allen's blog post; it's actually about having the courage to stand up for what's right. You can read the bootlegger's story in the link below.
You do not need permission to do the right thing. No one can give you permission to do the wrong thing. | BrookeAllen.com