I will tell you a story.
In March last year I was involved in a very serious car accident.
I was driving in the mountains for work in my pickup truck and had to stop and take pictures every few hundred meters. I was wearing my safety shoes, which are mountain shoes very wide and totally unsensitive. After a curve I had to cross the opposite lane to enter an exposed, unsealed rest area. There was poor visibility so I sped up. I was also in a great hurry. Immediately afterwards I braked... but unfortunately the sole pressed the accelerator too.
There was no protection so.... I literally flew off the road on a cliff!
After about 3 meters a la Tom Cruise
luckily there was a very soft scree. So, I kept going downhill for about fifty meters and stopped gradually bumping into several large rocks. During the flight I kept the steering wheel straight. Amazingly, the car kept its balance and did not tip to the side , otherwise I would have rolled downhill for a hundred meters or more and I would not be telling the story...
Instead I got out totally unharmed, with the car quite badly damaged (but not to be written off) without even the airbags deployed.
Some of my colleagues saw me from underneath and came to the rescue. They thought I had died of a heart attack... I don't want to brag at all, but I am a person who strangely maintains control very well in dangerous situations, which also saved my life on a couple of other occasions (one in Antarctica, others in the mountains). I went to eat at the canteen and then continued my work. My colleagues could not believe it!
But clearly it was a wake-up call.... Mistakes are made and should be taken into account. I no more wear safety shoes while driving. Second, I use extra care when driving on that, very dangerous road (450 curves counted!). I recount the episode to say that indeed one must be careful. Very careful. Especially in mountain environments. MTB or cars. No differences.