Hi! Has anyone here read said book and could answer me some questions?
In the great revelation in the end Wexford that Vigo hit Bridget Culross in the head, which either killed her or made her unconscious. Either way, he wanted to get rid of her and just threw her out of the car. He laid her head on his lap and threw her out the passenger side while he was driving on the slow lane, her head landing in the fast lane and her legs in the middle lane. As I understood it, the slow lane is the outermost lane, then comes the middle lane and then the fast lane, which is closest to the track going in the other direction. Being in Britain, he drove on the left side of the highway on the outermost slow lane, with the middle and fast lane on his right. Later Mr Fanshawe came to that spot driving in the fast lane and swerved right to avoid Bridget’s head, because her legs were in the fast lane (on the right) and her head in the middle lane (on the left). He then crashed his car into a tree in the central strip.
Now, the doctor rightfully says that it can’t have happened that way because – since British cars have a right-hand drive, Vigo would have pushed Bridget out the left and since the fast track is the one on the right she couldn’t have landed on the fast track, where Mr Fanshawe was driving. And even if so, then her feet would have been in the fast lane (and I assume her head between the fast lane and the central strip) and then Mr Fanshawe would have swerved to the left, not crashing into the tree.
Wexford then states that it was a foreign car with a left-hand drive and that apparently settles the matter.
Now, I understand that with a left hand drivit was possible for Vigo to push Bridget out of the right hand while drive on the slow lane (on the very left) and for her to land in the fast lane. But Wexford also says that her body and legs were in the middle lane (so on the left) and her head in the fast lane (on the right), but if Vigo put her head on his lap, then her head was on the left and her legs on the right, when she was still in the car.
I would say that there is no possible way of knowing how a body is going to land if you push it out of a moving car, but the doctor’s argument – if he pushed her out the left side while driving on the central stripe with her head on his lap, her head would have been on the right (because the doctor assumed it was a British car) and she would have landed on the street with the head on the right, because then Mr Fanshawe would have swerved left to avoid the head – seems to establish that a body is going to land the same way it lay in the car.
I know this sound immensly complicated, but I know no better way to describe it. Maybe I’m just dumb. Maybe I’m missing something. Please help me out here, I really want to understand it.
by Anna_Ziska