I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.
A gurney is a bed on wheels that is used in hospitals for moving sick or injured people. a long narrow table with wheels used for moving sick people in a hospital (Gurney cab (19-20 centuries), a type of horse-drawn vehicle invented by J. T. Gurney of Boston, Massachusetts)