comment on point of view

The novel is written in the first person point of view. The main character and narrator is James Ballard, a young Englishman who has recently survived a car crash that left another man dead. Ballard meets a man obsessed with car crashes while attempting to deal with the emotional aftermath of his own car crash. Ballard tells the story of this other man, expressing his obsession and his own part in it, leading to the tale of his friend's death in a car crash.