The driver must have watched too many action movies
As I was driving my first car decade ago, I drove my 3.8L 'powerful' Taurus straight through a 30cm high snow bank lying on the entrance to a shopping area. I ended up paying thousand dollars to replace radiator
From that experience, I realized that normal cars were not as strong as we thought, not like we saw in movies, at least you could not drive them like a tank - probably, you would have to buy a jeep or a truck.
Cheers, first time drivers!