He was only doing about sixty as he approached the black patch across the right-hand crown of the road which he assumed to be the shadow cast by a wayside tree. Even so, there was no time to save himself.

他只跑了大约 60 英里，就接近了路右侧的黑色斑块，他认为那是路边树投下的阴影。即便如此，也来不及自救。