Recurring car crash dream - help?

Date: 6/25/2016

I've been having these dreams since before I even started driving, around age 14. I'm always at the wheel, in heavy traffic, going ridiculously fast. Every time I reach for the brake though I find that my legs are too short to reach it (FYI, I am not a short person). I end up swerving around other cars and coming dangerously close to hitting several of them until I finally crash into someone. At that point the dream usually becomes semi-lucid, and I start to hope I'm dreaming but I'm not entirely certain, which causes great distress. I occasionally have alternate versions of this dream where I'm trapped in the passenger seat and have to control the car from there, or where I'm using remote control to drive an unmanned, full-size vehicle from a long distance and the signal is cutting out. In the end, I always crash hard. I've been at fault for three car accidents in the past three years, and the dreams have become more frequent with each one. The dreams are really distressing and I'm beginning to wonder if they are affecting my driving in real life. If anyone else has experience dealing with recurring dreams, please leave a comment.