Safety Bulletin:
How to Drive Your SUV 
Many rollovers start at the steering wheel, here's how to prevent them:
1. Keep both hands on the steering wheel with a closed grip. Keep your hands close together. You want to limit the steering input in emergency situations. You can lose control and roll SUVs and 4 x 4s with hard steering in 1/2 second.
2. Never try to return to the road at speed. An SUV or 4 x 4 can be tripped by highway edge contact or overturned by excessive steering at speeds above about 30 mph. (This is good advice for any vehicle, but especially for SUVs and 4 x 4s)
3. Don't steer around small animals- don't play dodge-ball with an SUV or 4 x 4. Big animals can come over the hood and hurt you, but you can't risk trying to evade small animals in most SUVs.
1. Hand Positions:
These are good positions if you can get comfortable with them. Try putting your hands together at the top of the wheel as well. Any position that that limits wheel rotation by inhibiting arm swing is good, these are probably the most effective. The single handed - open hand palm grip illustrated below can kill you.
Many SUVs and 4 x 4s have too much power assist which allows large wheel rotations with only palm pressure on the steering wheel. (Illustrations C & D) If your grip is already opened (Note thumb and forefinger in C.) It is very easy to inadvertently make an large rotation of the steering wheel in an emergency situation. The idea is to keep the wheel rotation to less than1/2 turn, preferably to less than 1/3 turn. Highway maneuvers at speed require much less wheel rotation than is allowed by these positions, typically less than 30 deg.