Like others on here, I can't believe they had time to get a Toyota up to 200 km/h, let alone make a phone call, and not have the common sense to throw it into neutral and kill the ignition.
Life and death, a car full of people, and all of them have brain freeze that bad? I've had nastier predicaments than that in automobiles and on Bikes/snowmobiles, cool as a cucumber compared to these four.
This was more of an operator problem than a problem with the car.