Every time i see a split in the road or spot a cliff while i'm driving fast, i either have to continue driving down the path or down the hill and manually hold the recovery for quite a while until i get back to the split, or create the restore point before experiencing the new path or fall, which doesn't especially help with any case where i wanted to keep my speed i was driving at.
You could take the camera off of the car with F8, then reattach it with SHIFT+C, then press F7 to reload at that point.