The news broke in the now-customary way: a buzzing alert was pushed out to all of our cell phones.
I glanced down and saw a headline.
‘Woman dead after crash in downtown tunnel.’
I drew in my breath sharply. Shit. That’s terrible. Our area is littered with tunnels: if you live in Norfolk you’re hard-pressed to find a way out of town without crossing a bridge, traversing a tunnel, or both.
I went back to doing housework, putting aside my phone and laptop for a while. When I came back online, my blood ran cold.