Granless What I'd make of it is that rigor mortis sets in at a certain point after death and goes away at a certain point after that so of course his hand was supple if the time was right. People can come off their scooter or have other accidents at any time. He might even have been still a bit tense from your dad's death and driving less than perfectly. You were expecting to hear of a death, so you put two and two together when you did. That woman was prety insensitive to start fortune-telling about deaths when you were mourning your father.
Same with SheilaSue 's experience. How many hundred times did you see a magpie without a death? You remember the one where they coincided, not the many others.
Scottish island ferries debacle. 🏴