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Shock is strange like that.
We seem to cope extremely well, automatically doing the correct things.
Then later when everybody is safe we start the shivers.
My worst was in the Swiss Alps driving a 12 metre coach fully loaded downhill when all brakes failed. This was a prototype vehicle, first one that was completely computer controlled and due to a programming failure it thought that if under 19 KPH brakes and retarders were not required so it switched them off.
Managed to negotiate three hairpins but knowing the road realised that the next one would be the last that I would be able to cope with so had to put it into a ditch. Nobody hurt and only body damage to the coach.
I finally came back to reality finding myself in tears some fifty yards away from the scene. I was told by the passengers that after we stopped I just climbed out and walked away.
The vehicle software was modified and it covered over a million miles without further problems.
The Swiss authorities at the time wanted me to be interviewed for the newspapers but as I was only doing my job I refused. Later found out that a German coach had crashed on the same pass a week earlier with a lot of fatalities.