To answer the op...
Back around 1970 I was driving east on the 400 across Toronto. Unknown to us, the speedometer read 20% slow and we were doing probably 95mph in the fast lane, in a 1964 Suburban. Suddenly ahead, cars were going all over the place like pinballs. I realized there was a large accident in progress, and slammed on the brakes. I had to keep increasing the pressure as they faded (all drums), and it was taking a long time to slow down since it was also a little downhill.
I considered that I wasn't going to have time to stop as I was getting closer to the car ahead, which also had brakes full-on. I considered that the back end of the Suburban would be cheaper to fix than the front, and I recalled that Stirling Moss had deliberately spun a racing car around backwards to mitigate a huge shunt he'd been in.
So I let off the brakes enough to allow the front wheels to turn, and turned the wheel enough to start a spin. There was no room to use the handbrake technique even if I'd known how. We only got sideways before the truck stopped moving, about 18 inches from the next car. I checked to see if anyone was going to hit us, but we were ok. I couldn't believe we'd gotten out of this without any damage. Had I not spun sideways, given the position of the center of gravity of the truck relative to an end rather than the the side, we would have used up the 2 feet. And probably the old Suburban had more braking traction sideways than straight. The passengers had been utterly silent as this unfolded, but we got quite a rush afterward.