Execute A J-Turn

Secret Service Member Traits All agents and officers are trained in evasive driving. That includes learning how to execute what is called a J-turn.

In a J-turn, the driver accelerates in reverse to over 40 mph. Then, they almost simultaneously swing the steering wheel with a hard turn and throw the car into drive. The result is a near-seamless, if screeching, 180-degree turnaround that occurs in the space of fewer than two car lengths. Agents learn to execute such a turn so they can get their protectee out of danger even on a small one-way street, and they can even do it in a multivehicle motorcade.

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