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Oblivious to the child in the back of the car he had stolen, Kieran was just beginning to think he could relax for a bit, that he was no longer in immediate danger. He had been driving around for about twenty minutes when he decided that, and it was at that moment that a patrol car showed up in his rear-view mirror.
He held his breath and hoped that it was nothing to worry about, and the police car would take the next turning without troubling him. He realised that was not to be the case, however, when he saw the officer behind the wheel ignore the turning as he spoke into his radio.
Kieran didn’t wait to see what the officer was going to do, instead he followed his instincts and spun the wheel. First, he went to his right, thinking to speed off down the other side of the road; oncom
