The character of Sky is, from the beginning, already dead. His death prior to the film was caused when he stopped at a T-Junction waiting to turn left, when a lorry coming from the left fell asleep at the wheel and hit Sky's car head-on as Sky was about to turn. He is killed instantly (as it is put across when he and Felix are 'talking' at the end), but the link here is that Felix is a freelance mechanic and often has to be called out to fix lorries which have broken down.
I looked into real-life stories about people who had died because of manslaughter on the fault of the lorry driver, or those who had died in car collisions that weren't their fault.
The fact that Sky's death is so sudden doesn't allow Felix to say goodbye, and it is likely that the state of Sky's body would have been horribly disfigured, that Felix feels that he couldn't go and see him one last time in the morgue.
He undoubtedly wishes it had been him instead, as he was older and Sky was young enough to keep going with his hard-earned career as a History teacher, but he also blames himself, as he is a mechanic who is often called out to fix lorries which have broken down, leading him to think that if he hadn't gone out to them, (as the lorry which hit Sky's car could have been one Felix fixed), Sky might still be alive.
Links
http://www.viperguard.co.uk/information/41-corporate-manslaughter/67-a-reminder-to-hgv-operators-that-failure-to-discharge-their-duties-could-lead-to-a-manslaughter-prosecution-if-death-occurs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11417200/Bath-truck-crash-Two-men-arrested-on-suspicion-of-manslaughter.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31499753
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