Chapter Seventeen
Carl and Harry listened as Sgt Lang walked them through the photographs he’d taken of the roadway leading up to the point where Richard Clarke’s car had gone over the guard rail into Appleby Gorge.
‘There’s no sign he hit the brakes before colliding with the rail,’ said Sgt Lang. He pointed to the road next to the mangled guard rail. ‘He’s come across here but there’s no skid marks leading to the point of impact.’
‘So, he could have driven into it intentionally,’ said Carl.
‘I don’t think so,’ said Sgt Lang. He clicked onto the next image in his presentation. ‘If you look at this one, you can see the car slid along the rail before going over the edge. That suggests he was trying to take the bend at speed and lost it. If he’d driven straight into it, the barrier would
