Singer Brandy is reflecting on the fatal 2006 car crash l that killed 38-year-old woman Awatef Aboudihaj in her newly released memoir, Phases. "It was just a drive, another day traveling the pale concrete veins of the 405. How many times had I coasted along this mundane stretch of freeway?" Brandy, 47, wrote in the book, published on Tuesday, March 31. "But all familiarity was shattered on a chilly December morning in 2006. There had been no warning. No shiver down the spine. No flicker in the atmosphere hinting at what was to come.