The coroners report returned a closed verdict. It explained how she had stopped at the intersection for some time waiting for a break in the heavy north flowing traffic. She had driven forward and slowed to slot in behind a north bound approaching Semi-Trailer and while doing so had quite innocently positioned her vehicle in the path of a fully laden B-double traveling south at one hundred kilometers per hour. Her small compact was carried eighty meters down the road by the impact. Death would have been instant. The truck drivers traveling in both directions testified that she had been looking south and appeared not have seen or heard the approaching B-double even though the driver had sounded the air horn and was braking heavily. Both truck drivers, although physically uninjured, were disturbed by the accident and required hospitalization over night, suffering from shock. There was nothing the truck driver could have done to avoid the accident.

The coroner noted from expert witness testimony, had the B-double involved in the accident not been a fully roadworthy K104 Kenworth the accident might have been much worse. The vehicle exhibits remarkable stability under heavy breaking and while its low front paneling would have caused more damage to her vehicle, the truck was able to pull up in a straight line without jackknifing or catapulted into the oncoming traffic, and therefore causing several more vehicles to become seriously involved.

Holding back the tears he read the finding one more time, before placing it into an envelope with the letter he had just written. It had explained the pain of living alone this last 12 months; how he had cuddled the vacant pillow and cried every night; how he had no one to share his sorrow and the memory of growing up in the orphanage with his lifelong sole mate; how they had moved into their own flat the day they were both seventeen. How they had both never known another lover; how they had learned intimacy together.

He kissed the envelope addressed to himself and deposited it in the post box on the corner.