Denis Johnson, "Car Crash While Hitchhiking"

Another pill popper. This one hitches and survives a horrific accident. Might be the same pill popper.

(from Jesus' Son)

Under Midwestern clouds like great grey brains we left the superhighway with a drifting sensation and entered Kansas City's rush hour with a sensation of running aground.

Because you know from the title, and from a lot of lines soon after it, you might think the accident wouldn't shock, but i does. It's a bloody and sudden thing. I wish I could find you
a place to read this story online, but all I found was another site summarizing the story. Very strange. Anyway I'm not going to link it because whoever wrote it said the narrator of "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" is clairvoyant, but I don't think so. Never trust a junkie, people.

Small Factory, "Junky on a Good Day"