There was an undertow and twist nobody saw coming. for, while justine spent 45 days in the hospital recuperating and months more here at home in montana healing, it didn t take investigators very long at all, matter of hours, really, to solve the mystery of who and what caused this crash. in fact, the first officers believed that justine winters car was the one that crossed the center line and smashed into erin thompson s car, but the worst of it, the inconceivable partwa at least as investigators told flat head county coroner, this was not an accident at all. what was your first reaction. what did you think? nuts. this was the last thing i wanted was to have to take a double