Lane struggled to teach her father to drive. During one of their lessons, he nearly killed them both: accustomed to driving a team of horses, he had braced his foot on the gas pedal while pulling back on the steering wheel, saying “Whoa!” Grazing a couple of other cars, the Buick plowed through a ditch, taking out a barbed wire fence and uprooting a small tree. Lane went through the windshield, leaving her with glass in her face, a crushed nose, and two black eyes.
