The Accident

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The day that changed everything for Hannah Graham began in exactly the same way as any other. Not unusually, she overslept, showered at record speed and shouted at her kids at least three times before either of them took any notice. Her daughter Mel’s eventual response was to slam the bathroom door and her son Sam shouted an obscenity which he knew his mother hated him to use.

‘If you want a lift you need to be ready in twenty minutes!’ Hannah yelled up the stairs.

Sam stomped into the kitchen in his boxers, reddish-brown hair mussed above a scowling face. At seventeen, he was at an age where he appeared to be all arms and legs protruding from a skinny body, with features which he’d not quite grown into yet. He’d also recently been afflicted by acne, which he hated anyone mentioning.

‘Mel’s got in the bathroom before me again — she’ll be ages!’ he moaned. ‘Why can’t you wake me first?’

‘Why can’t you get up the first time I call you and then you’ll get there before your sister?’ Hannah replied. ‘You can use our en suite if you like?’

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