traffic accidents

Martin has always been pretty happy with his life, but when a tragic event forever changes it, he must learn to redefine happiness for himself.

When Jessica and Sarah drive to the mall without permission on a rainy night, their lives are endangered by a drunk driver.

Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, a pro-carpooling agency, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. June's life is about to change. After a turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a taco soup recipe, and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written: "20 things to do by my 25th birthday." Even though they barely knew each other, June is compelled--by both guilt and a desire to set things right--to finish the list for Marissa. The tasks before her range from inspiring (run a 5k, watch a sunrise) to daring (go braless) to near impossible (change someone's life). As fun-filled as the list must have been for Marissa, it's not going to be easy for June, who's spent a lifetime falling short. But challenging though it will be, June is determined to make Marissa's dreams come to, and as she races to achieve each goal before the deadline, she learns more about her own dreams than she ever bargained for.

Terrified when she hits someone while driving on a lonely road during a rain storm, Susan leaves the scene of the night-time accident.

Clare Wilson has had it with her husband's cheating, so when she finally kicks him to the curb, she feels a rush of unadulterated freedom. But when a freak car crash lands Clare in the hospital, her life takes another detour. She might be banged up and bruised, but suddenly men are coming out of the woodwork.

When Selah Morse sees a taxi run down a young woman, he takes her to the hospital and pretends to be her boyfriend, providing her with a false name before taking custody and attempting to alleviate her amnesia through storytelling that he hopes will offer a hint of self-recognition for the stranger.

Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.

Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan, becomes involved in a freak accident, and prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on him.

The book discusses the use of drugs by teenagers, and in particular, the consequences of combining drugs and driving.

Anna, feeling guilty over the death of her dog in a car accident that also injured the town's star hockey player, comes to a better understanding of herself and the realities of life when she begins to care for a fox she finds starving in her yard.