Chapter 8Adam learned later that the deployment of the airbags had caused moderate bruising of his chest. After his car had been nudged against the guard rail by the tailgating Navigator, it was then struck by a car which had been behind the Navigator. When the SUV’s driver swerved left in a futile attempt to avoid Adam’s car, the third car had swerved right and struck the little Miata on the side. The driver’s window had shattered, the metal railing along the soft top had been rammed against Adam’s head, and the left side of his ribcage was damaged by the buckling of the door. Still, the doctor had told him, he was lucky his injuries hadn’t been much worse.
His memory of all that was spotty. He remembered waking up literally seeing red. It was his own blood. He was on a stretcher in an a
