If your car starts to skid, turn your steering wheel:
- To keep the front wheels straight.
- In the direction you want the vehicle to go. ✓
- In the opposite direction of the skid.
- In any direction. It doesn't matter.
Answer: B. In the direction you want the vehicle to go.
If your car starts to skid, turn the steering wheel in the direction you want the vehicle to go.
Why this is the answer
The Florida handbook's emergency section tells you to turn the vehicle's front tires toward where you want the vehicle to travel, and adds that this is the same as steering in the direction of the skid. So your hands follow your target, not the slide. The handbook gives this as the steering step in its skid guidance, alongside easing off the gas and avoiding hard braking where possible.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. To keep the front wheels straight. — Holding the wheels straight is the handbook's advice for getting a wheel off the pavement, not for a skid, so it would leave you pointed away from where you need to go.
- C. In the opposite direction of the skid. — Turning against the skid is the opposite of what the handbook describes, since it says to steer in the direction of the skid, which is the same as aiming where you want to go.
- D. In any direction. It doesn't matter. — The handbook treats steering direction during a skid as a specific rule, not a matter of choice, so saying any direction is wrong.
Remember it
Aim the front tires at the spot you want to end up in, and let your hands follow your eyes there.