Little of the macabre events in Edgar's story, the initial accident apart, bears any relation to most people's lived experience.
The initial accident report offered few details, except to say that an unidentified hospital had administered radiation overdoses to three patients during identical medical procedures.
The police were investigating the accident yesterday afternoon and were trying to determine whether Mr. Romeo was thrown from his car during the initial accident or after his car had been struck by the police car.
The initial accident should have been enough for any family to endure, but as with the travails of Job or Oedipus or Lear, the plot only darkens from there.
The court has heard that the family was now bringing a High Court legal action against the ambulance service over the initial accident, which happened as Mr Inglis was being taken to hospital after an altercation during a night out.
Patients in Mr. Corzine's situation face the greatest risk of death at three crucial periods after an accident like his, said Dr. Jeffrey S. Hammond, the director of the trauma center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., and the governor has already survived two of them: the initial accident, and the days immediately afterward.
But if that fails, it could be months before a second well is completed, reducing the pressure in the first and thus stemming the flow.Some two weeks after the initial accident, oil has begun to wash up on the frail marshes and rich oyster beds that line Louisiana's shores.
A person's attention or balance might have been affected in the initial accident, making a second more likely.
Witness Tariq Hussein said that a naked Flores attempted to damage several cars following the initial accident.
The initial accident reports revealed several inconsistencies and violations that induced expanded investigation.
