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...time, but I could not help but imagine the consequences of my car breaking down. As the glow was extinguished from my dashboard, and as the sound of the engine faded, I was trapped in silence and eternal darkness. I could neither see my hands on the steering wheel, nor see my feet on the pedals. I reached out, there was nothing to touch; I called out, there was no answer. I floated in space, from nowhere and to nowhere in a universe of nothing. At no other time in my life had I felt more alone...
...kilometers away on a rain-slicked stretch of Bangkok's Boromratchanee Road, a black Toyota sedan has plowed into the back of a truck carrying sacks of cement. Anand, one of hundreds of Bangkok residents who voluntarily help mop up the city's nightly street carnage, jumps behind the wheel, while his 16-year-old co-worker Jitchana Srikachang climbs into the back. The pickup tears off toward the crash site...
...Instead, he glimpsed something horrifying: a speeding truck was hurtling toward him, the driver wrestling with the wheel as the vehicle skidded over the slick tarmac. Raja vaulted to safety over a steel road divider just as the truck plowed into the other bikers. Four were killed instantly and a dozen were injured. "All I got was a cut from the hitting the divider," Raja recalled the next day. "The others never saw the truck coming. They didn't have a chance...
...With daylight fading, the officers have toiled for an hour to make the fishing vessel inoperable, securing the wheel and rudder and applying a tow line. Orange life vests are dispatched to the Indonesians (most of whom decide to use them as comfortable seats). While the small, unstable vessel pitches and rolls, the officers search for further evidence in the bilge water and interview the fishermen about their voyage. They also try to explain to the detainees - skinny boys and craggy grandfathers who live on fish and a cup of rice a day - what will happen to them. Cummins wants...
...officers then commanded Moats to exit the car, which he refused to do. He instead firmly gripped the steering wheel and said, “I am not going anywhere,” according to Catalano...