After filling his tank with gas while driving from Denver to his home in the Phoenix area, Plank lost control of his pickup truck on a patch of ice while merging back onto the highway.
“As I was accelerating, I just felt like the back end of the pickup truck I was in, I began to lose control of it and it started going sideways,” Plank said via telephone. “I realized there was really nothing I could do at that point in time other than just ride it out.