...There are also the one who still claim: " Even if Stephanie was not driving...and by the way I'm not totally convinced she wasn't...there's been a cover-up and we'll never no the truth about the accident, although I know what happend but I can't say for fear of reprisals. ( don't know who Jeffrey is talking about here, who said this)
Nonsense.
There was no cover-up.
Stephanie was not driving!
Caroline is the only member of the family to have spoken to Stephanie about what happend in the car that morning. She moved into Stephanie's hospital room, to live there with her until she was fit enough to go home. And the two girls talked about the accident a few days after it happend.
'Stephanie told me, " Mommy kept saying, I can't stop. The brakes don't work. I can't stop." She said that mommy was in a complete panic Stephanie grabbed the handbrake. Se told me right after the accident, " I pulled on the handbrake but it wouldn't stop. I tried but I just couldn't stop the car." '
Stephanie has never discussed the accident with her father or brother ( maybe she has until now , the book is some years old) There are even some people close to the family who sincerely believe that Stephanie has since blocked the accident out of her mind, that she remebres nothing of what happend that morning.
This is not the case.
' I remeber every minute of it, ' she says, trying to control her emotions. It's only in the last few years that I've been starting to cope with it. I had some professional help and especially in the last eight months I've been learning to deal with it. I still can't go down that road, even if someone else is driving. I always ask them to take the other road. But at least I can talk about it without crying. Although it's hard for me to get it out in front of my dad. As far as I'm concerned I can live with it. But I still can't talk to my dad about it because I know it hurts him and I don't want to do that because I love him.'