A Honda crashed opposite our house several years ago. We live on a main road and it was a lovely summer weekend afternoon. Several neighbours and myself went across the road to see if the occupants were OK. Four ethnic lads got out of the car a little shaken. One went to the boot, openined it and got out a video recorder; then they all just seemed to wander off....
The car had clearly previously been a cut'n'shut repair, judging from the way it broke up on impact, but it had been stolen, as had the video recorder we assumed.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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My Dad resued a woman from a burning car int eh early 70's. She had gone down a motorway embankment hit a tree at the bottom and started to burn.
He saw her go off, stopped on the hard shoulder, pulled her out and retired to a safe distance.
She then asked him to go back for her handbag which was on the passenger seat. He left the scene.
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>>. But on one journey over new year I passed six or seven cars rolled over in heavy snow on country lanes and I couldn’t give a monkeys.<<
Did you get the 406 recovered alright Dave after that nasty accident on your way to Gdansk last week?
Never seen snow like it myself.
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Crashed car with visible occupants? Yes, I hope I would.
A work colleague is still haunted by the fact that he twice drove past a submerged vehicle during the night in which the four occupants drowned. Probably nothing he could have done but still plenty of "what if?" moments.
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I would call the emergency services but I would not under any circumstances stop.
You just don't know what your stepping into these days.
Double this for any woman on her own. You can be accused of anything and prosecuted on her word alone. Common sense left the justice system years ago. Sorry but its just not worth the risk.
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Always stop, if I see anything - regrettably quite often, when I was out at auctions, everyday.
Had the advantage of the Maestro van, being pretty visible, with the lightbar, on the roof, so this helped make things a bit safer,to stop, back then.
But most recent, was early evening, a few weeks back & a guy trying to make everyone aware of the car in the ditch, on a blind bend - putting himself more at risk - no dayglo jacket/torch, just himself, behaving as if he may be a drunk, in the road (he wasn't).
But his friend was still sitting (not trapped) in the car. So it makes sense, to confirm, that the vehicle IS, in fact unoccupied or anyone else involved, is OK, regardless of the actions, or comments, of others involved.
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Slightly diff I suppose, but Fiesta on its head last thursday just around the corner from me. Fast (ish) sweeping bends with a dodgy manhole cover or two. Plod and fire in attendance and ambulance obviously just left. Now you had a job to see to get through the road cos of the massive amount of blue lights and two plod just standing gassing away, no high viz jackets and no directional help. Two plonkers if you ask me and I knew one of them. A retained fireman friend tells me that Plod has no requirement to wear high viz. Can this be true? P.S. I don't hate plod. My Dad was one for 28 years and he was a good chap. Well, that's what me mam said.
Phew!.....Best regards............MD.
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coming back from a night call a few years ago near Llanwrst, i came across a car broken down in the road, no lights on, young occupants wandering around aimlessly not knowing what to do. I stopped mainly to tell them to push the car off the road as it is a notorious accident spot. They seemed a little high, so when they showed signs of getting the car out the way, i left. I would like to think I would stop and help at an accident, but not at the cost of the safety of those with me (e.g children).
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let me be the last to let you down....
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Years ago, when my brother was about 9, he and his mate found a guy stuck in his car. The car had left the road, was on its roof and he was trapped upside down. The car had gone down a dip into a wooded area and couldn't be seen from the road. They raced back to our farm to raise the alarm. The guy got pulled from his car and survived. What amazed me was that he didn't think to look up the kids, who saved his life, to thank them. My brother had nightmares about it for quite a while after because the driver looked such a mess.
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I wonder how the French ended up with the law where it is a legal duty to offer assistance? I'm surprised at the number of people who are saying they wouldn't stop. Yup, I recognise the risk factors involved, but if you'd just ended up in a ditch...?
Tim{P}
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Some years ago I was hurrying to see an aunt and uncle of my ex-wife at their retirement farmhouse in Wales. A couple of miles short of the place I came suddenly on a Hillman Imp, stopped in the carriageway on a hairpin, with an elderly woman at the wheel. I drove round it and continued cursing on my way. Arriving at the farm I found the place in some chaos and deserted. Wandering around there I could not suppress feelings of slight guilt at having failed to stop and help the Imp lady, and was tortured by an impression that there had been somthing familiar about her. Soon a van from the local garage arrived with my hostess as passenger. She was suffering from Alzheimer's, but recognized me. Her husband, thinking I was arriving by train, had gone to meet me and she had seized the opportunity for a drive. The garage man gave us a can of petrol and I drove her back to her Imp on the hairpin where it had run out of fuel, then followed her back to the farm.
I still blush to recall my thuggish indifference on that occasion, and hope I would not be so callous now despite all that is said to make us fear contact with anyone in lonely places.
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She then asked him to go back for her handbag which was on the passenger seat. He left the scene.
Olf, I would hope that in that situation I wouldn't be so stupid. But in a dazed and shocked state after the crash, I wouldn want my handbag and I wouldn't rely on being able to think straight, and can see that I might not realise that it was dangerous to return to a burning car.
I can see why your Dad was offended, but if I was the rescuer I hope I would not allow a misunderstanding like that to persuade me to abandon the scene.
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