It is stupidity if one crashes because veered off the road a bit, driving is not very difficult, just using brain instead of without control by emotions would save millions of lives in any activity, but no, it seems to be too hard.
Case 1 shift neutral, gently let car to come to halt, if car tries to act funny countermeasure accordingly, switching back to gear and booting if needed, but generally one blown tire will not cause big trouble. However it is not allowed to drive 80MPH, also it is bad judgement to use tires in such condition that can suddenly blow up, driving to sharp object rarely gives big boom.
Case 2 At 55Mph car travels quite many yards each second, it is better observe and prepare before geese gets so close as when geese gets so close driver can only keep car under straight line and stop to safe location to see what damage did happen.
Case 3 usually both side of car queue there is plenty of space, often in that kind of location is also guard rail, so shifting lower gear, braking with what brakes one has and if necessarily use road side objects to slow down. In old cars one can use handbrake to certain factor, but with new cars it is useless in slowing down.
In any case to even get into those situations one must be ignorant fool, observe, keep car and tires serviced, when driving think ahead, play game of what if when you drive, has saved many times my life, even when brake servo did fail when closing intersection at steep downhill.
Have had car coming from sideroad on icy road, had 50MPH speed and no chance of stopping, so ditched car between guardrail and car that did come from smaller road, cars suffered, lives saved and no need to start with Mooses in dark rainy autumn evening, when one can see no more than 50 meters, moose is black, surroundings are black, if not prepared no chance to avoid one, certainly no any chances to stop before one if it comes to road with bad timing.
When 64ton lorry comes against you from opposite direction and when you are almost next to it's front bumper some idiot from opposite directions starts to overtake that lorry, I just drove to shoulder, would not been possible if I would not played what if game, I knew instantly what to do.
One tight corner at 50MPH zone I found that behind the corner appeared two lorries side by side, distance less than 100 meters, I just drove off the road without braking as there was enough space.
Simply put, people don't think enough, they just drive and never prepare to unexpected, I have been so much on road, that there has been lot of different situations where I have found being split second from crash and only thing that separates from surviving and failing is how you think.
It is possible to get into impossible situation, however chances to that are very slim when one thinks ahead and prepares for unexpected, leaving feelings outside a car is 1st step, more than half from deaths could been avoided if driver could kept cold head and would not let emotions drive the car, this is very true especially for overtaking.
Certainly that Officer can enter Darwin Awards, he had the training to deal unexpected situations, he had training to car handling much more than any average person, he just was not sharp enough to use what he knew.
Hell Driver, Saab 900, where is the key?
). Eased off a bit but the engine had other ideas and screamed to full throttle. Of course, when this happens, instinct is to hit the brakes which I did hard. Car stopped and engine still screaming, rear wheel(s) spinning 
