Swerving over the other side of the road seems like a stoopid thing to do if you ask me. If the other driver swerved back left to where they should be, you'd be looking at a head on again (that's providing you can control your car and not drive it into a house!)
The cynic in me doesn't believe this story. I suspect, given all the references to how fast the car is, that the DM journo doesn't either...