Collision Course by Jami Gray

Author:Jami Gray [Gray, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948884693
Publisher: Celtic Moon Press

Seventeen

Since the property and evidence lot was down the block and behind the main buildings, we left Zev’s bike and walked the short distance. Deciding to multitask, I flipped through the report, trusting Zev not to lead me into a ditch or something.

“According to the witness statements, one minute Max was calmly passing a semi, and the next, he was picking up speed and weaving erratically between the two lanes, before shooting over the side. None of them report seeing anything lying on or darting across the road.”

Zev touched my arm in warning. “It’s surprising that he didn’t hit someone.”

I sidestepped a lifted piece of the concrete sidewalk. “He came close. According to one person, he almost clipped an SUV, but they managed to brake short, which almost caused the driver behind him to hit him.”

Out on the street, a car drove by. I lifted my gaze and watched it slow to a stop at the sign at the end. “Not one of the witnesses remember seeing his brake lights.”

“Any notes on how fast he was going?”

“One witness said he was at eighty-five when Max blew past. Because of the downgrade, that stretch is marked at sixty-five.”

Zev caught my wrist and brought me to a stop by the crosswalk. “The only ones who actually stick to the speed limits are the semis and the snowbirds.”

He wasn’t wrong. I used the file folder to shade my eyes from the sun’s glare and looked up at him. “If Max ‘blew past’ a witness at eighty-five, it’s safe to assume he had to be doing ninety plus.”

He studied me. “Which adds weight to the initial report of the accident being deliberate.”

“Maybe,” I agreed. “Another explanation is that someone tampered with the car, maybe disabled the brakes or messed with the ECU.” Either of those should show up once a mechanic or electro mage checked out a car. I dropped my attention back to the report and studied the initial notations on the accident diagram. “But I’m not seeing anything in here about skid marks or fluids on the road. Not that the lack of either of those signs are conclusive evidence of sabotage.”

“ECU?” He put his hand against the base of my spine and gave me a nudge.

I closed the report as we stepped off the curb and crossed the street. “Engine control unit. It’s the computer brains of most modern cars.”

“Like a plane’s black box.”

“Yep.” We hit the sidewalk on the other side, and I lost his touch as he moved to take the lead. “If I had known we were going to check out the car, I would’ve brought Evan along,” I told his back.

Without looking back, he said, “I’m sure DPS has their own electro mages to run diagnostics.”

I’m sure they did, but who knew how long it would be before they would share the results. Plus, Evan was in a league of his own. And he was sneaky. Sneaky would be good since we weren’t allowed to access anything anyway.

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