Crash

The police had described it as a routine crash. At some point the driver had lost control of the wheel, and the car had veered off the road. The driver had not been driving all that fast. In fact, the path between the road and the tree had served to decelerate the car and cushion the impact. That said, the trunk of the ancient tree was so gnarled, the officer at the scene was surprised to see it still standing.

Both victims had been saved by their air bags. The driver in his early thirties had been lucky enough to receive no injuries. At the hospital they had diagnosed mild concussion, which is what made it all the more perplexing, the fact that the passenger – a woman in her mid-twenties had been plunged into a coma. No one could tell whether she would ever come out.