"Yes but it may be her way of dealing with the grief, not everyone wants or is equipped to deal with hard facts especially when they simply heap more pain on a situation."

You're right, that was my thinking too which was why I didn't make my thoughts known. As to skidding with cross-ply tyres, I don't recall any such event and a couple of years after passing my test and having relatively decent cars, I switched to radials.

As to the scenario painted by BS, I've learned by experiences not to trust any signals at road junctions because of the possibility of such a result.