20 Minutes On the Road by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2021-07-06T22:00:00+00:00

Valentin *

17:36

Valentin Morozov could see there was a problem on the other side of the motorway because there was no traffic moving towards him, but that didn’t bother him too much because his side was flowing. Travelling on the motorway at such a busy time meant a driver was always taking a chance in getting caught up in queues, but luck seemed to be on the Russian man’s side this evening because he was moving while those unlucky souls on the other side of the central reservation were obviously being held up by something. But it was only as he got closer that Valentin saw exactly what that was.

An overturned bus. A smashed car. A minibus on its side. Several more vehicles all facing in different directions. Police cars. Ambulances. And then the rest of the traffic behind them, hundreds of cars, all of them stuck and waiting for the mess to be cleared up so they could get moving again.

Like most drivers who pass by the site of a traffic accident, Valentin slowed down a little so he could get a better look. It was that morbid curiosity that he and so many other drivers seemed to have a need to feed whenever they were in close proximity to a situation where human life had been in danger.

How bad was the crash?

Whose fault was it?

And most importantly, had somebody died?

Valentin was a man who loved coming face to face with danger and death, although it was usually done in a very private manner, but today he could be more brazen with his desire to see the suffering of others because everybody on his side of the motorway was doing the same thing. They all slowed down, and they all stared at the chaos on the neighbouring carriageway, and every single one of them got a good look at the damaged vehicles and the members of the emergency services who were now battling to save several lives.

It was disappointing for the Russian man that he didn’t actually get to see any bodies being removed from the wreckage or given CPR on the tarmac because that would have been thrilling for him, but he did see a defibrillator being taken out of the back of an ambulance, so that gave him some idea as to how serious things were over there. But that was all he got to see before the vehicle he was travelling in moved on down the motorway on the side unaffected by the smash, and just like that, the incident was gone from his mind as if it had never even happened at all.

Valentin was good at forgetting all about serious things like death and destruction, and that was part of what made him such a good serial killer. He didn’t dwell on the past and how he could have done things differently because he always knew that he had acted accordingly at the time. Like the situation in Las Vegas, for example, which had seen him

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