| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 8:02:19 AM | | i have done i have been first aider i dealt with car accidents moteer bike accident and pedistrons but when we was training we was told only to move the injured once and that was only to get them and yourselves out of danger I think that everybody should at least try first aid red cross or st johns it means alot to save a life but the biggest killer his shock keep the person warm at all times. Even in warm conditions have a first aid kit in your car | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 8:21:55 AM | | I would always stop and have done in the past, I got medical training for Trauma in the services and could be of some assistance. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 9:54:44 AM | Having same history as bootielicious i would definitely stop and help
I’ve found myself stopping to help people for all manner of reasons, only once to administer first aid
Other times I’ve stopped when a cars been broken down on a dangerous corner to push it somewhere safe.
The latest one was a 2am on the M4, i saw a car crawling along the hard shoulder with sparks coming from the bottom of the car (was on the way to Holland), just couldn’t drive past without trying to help, so i pulled up just ahead. It turned out the ladies exhaust has totally severed at the front of the car and was dragging underneath, spent the next half hour taking it off as it couldn’t be reattached, she couldn’t believe someone would stop to help her.
The point being was that I wouldn’t have felt comfortable just driving on when someone is in need and i hope that by taking half an hour of my time I restored someone’s faith slightly.
I try in all circumstances to do what is morally right, if I end up being sued at a later date then so be it, as long as I can stand up in court and know I did what I thought was the right thing. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 11:30:30 AM | Yes of course I would. If it was myself or my child, I’d hope someone would stop to help me/us.
In 2002 I was in town shopping when a 4 year old boy ran out into the main road and was hit by a car. Maybe if I’d have had my son with me who was 3 at the time, I may have not been able to help.
But I didn’t, so as I was/am a qualified first aider I took care of him the best I could. He had sustained serious head injuries from flying into the air and landing back onto the road. A local businessman came out with a first aid box and I attended the best I could. He then stopped breathing, I did what I could, and at one point after I gave him the kiss of life, he started breathing and I thought he was going to be alright. But then he stopped again, there wasn’t a pulse for what seemed like forever before the ambulance got there. They took over but to no avail. Due to the injuries sustained and blood loss, he died where he laid. It still effects me now, the mothers screams for her baby will never leave me.
And I struggle to come to terms that I didn’t save him and will be with me forever.
But one thing, when others were too shocked/didn’t want to help. I did, and I would do again. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 11:39:56 AM | Yes I would and have stopped on several occassions but there have been other times when I have seen enough people helping so I havent stopped.
Like you missy I have stopped when a child was knocked over by a car - up in the air and down to the ground again but fortunately she survived despite having major injuries - was horrendous but I would do it again if I could make even a little difference .
Sorry to hear the lad didnt survive but I'm sure you did all you could  | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 12:21:14 PM | I've been witness to precisely one road accident to date. Scarily, all it would have taken would have been for my traffic lights to change to green just three seconds earlier, and it would have been me (on my bicycle) that was smacked into at 40mph by a Jeep.
Adrenaline just kicked in, I dumped my bike on the side of the pavement and rushed over to help. A couple of other people stopped, but most people just carried on driving past (whilst still rubbernecking, might I add). The owner of the pub nearby had already phoned the police by the time I'd gone in there to use the phone.
Fortunately no-one was hurt - but if there had been a passenger in the car that was hit, they would have been dead for sure. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 12:29:50 PM | Yes I have and would.
I managed to put out a car fire too,me and my trusty fire extinguishers
Not had to use me first aid ticket but glad I have it | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 12:59:14 PM | Being a professional driver, I have seen many accidents, one fatal..
Every time (though not a first aider) I have tried to aid in anyway possible, be it keeping the voyeurs away whilst someone with knowledge helps. Or as in one case, comforting a woman whos husband had been beheaded in a mini bus that rolled 6 times in front of my vehicle. I have sat & talked to a man trapped in his car, till the fire brigade arrived.
I could not walk away, if for no other reason I truely believe what comes around goes around, & one day that could be my son in that car, & I would like to think, someone would do same for him
A very good freind of mine gave CPR at an accident, got covered in blood trying to keep the man alive. He failed, & contracted AIDS because of it, to the day he died he never regretted trying to save that mans life, nor does his widow or his daughter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3123191.stm
His legacy
Paul Gregory R.I.P a giant among men  | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/13/2007 10:33:11 PM | | I would help, as a first aider in work I wouldn't have a problem but before I did the 1st aid course I'm not so sure that I would have helped as would have been concerned that I would have done more harm than good. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/14/2007 12:21:29 AM | I would help and have helped in the past, however a word of warning..........we recently were notified at work of a motorcyclist who was "faking" an accident. We have some small quiet country lanes........he assaulted the young woman who stopped to help him.
First rule of stopping to help, assess the danger level, for yourself and the victim, if you have a phone, use it from your car before offering assistance, especially if alone !
Then, when you know help is on route, as has been said before, airway, breathing and circulation. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/14/2007 7:48:10 PM | | Would I help in a road accident?? Absolutly! I am a nurse trained in CPR and first aid. As a medical professional my duty is to save lives, that is what I do best. I could not walk away from a scene of an accident. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/14/2007 8:30:35 PM | Interestingly, at the last St John refresher I was on the advice was not to assist on RTAs, primarily due to the personal risk (rule #1, anybody?). This was backed up with horror stories of HGVs ploughing into the backs of stationary cars...
As a general rule - yes, I'll directly assist if it is safe. If there's only a couple of people there already dealing with it, I'll check to see if they need help or kit; too many people and I'd only be getting in the way. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 1:13:30 AM | Re E-Spy
I've stopped at a few RTAs to give assistance and in one case emergency first-aid.
If I have any doubts about visibility to oncoming vehicles I leave my own car parked in the road as a shield, with all the light on and in reverse gear with the ignition off..
Truckers can easily miss (and hit!) a stationary vehicle but very few people will fail to observe reverse lights on a car in front of them
EDIT: Dammit who's resurrecting ancient threads? I've already answered this one once ! | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 1:56:55 AM | I agree with what Willow wrote earlier on.
If the accident had just happened I would,if it was safe to pull over,go and see if I could assist in helping out the people involved in the accident and if needs be call the emergency services. But if the situation was under control by other parties then I would probably leave it to them.
What is apparant to me now is that many people will not stop even if an accident has just occured. Yesterday my dad had to brake very harshly on his motorbike due to being cut up by a car,the end result was that both my parents came off the bike and ended up on the road with the bike taking some nasty damage. All of the cars that witnessed this just drove around my parents and did not want to help or let anything come in between them getting from A to B. So although a lot on here do write that they would assist, and i'm quite sure you would,theres certainly a lot of ignorant b*stards out there that wouldn't. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 2:30:19 AM | Have already stopped and helped at several some quite bad. Am a qualified first aider and occasional first aid instructor to a youth organisation.
everyone should know some first aid. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 3:58:45 AM | | I can't believe this question is even being contemplated! Surely you have a moral duty to stop, even if you have no first aid skills to assist at the scene, you could make calls, comfort someone and keep people safe! | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 4:08:56 AM | | I have help administered first aid in a road accident and also at the scene of a microlight crash, one died (the road accident), the microlight pilot survived. I consider my 1st aid skills 2nd to none, and will always offer them when the need arises. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 4:48:07 AM |
I can't believe this question is even being contemplated! Surely you have a moral duty to stop, even if you have no first aid skills to assist at the scene, you could make calls, comfort someone and keep people safe!
I would always stop - I used to be a first aider for both the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance, and though that was a while ago now, I'm confident I could still save a life...
It should be pointed out that many people aren't quite so perceptive as TopTray - and don't realise that even if there is nothing they can do, just being there to offer comfort and emotional support is more than worthwhile. No-one, particularly if they're dying, should be left in that situation alone when it's avoidable.
Again though, the first aider in my feels the need to remind everyone that you shouldn't endanger yourselves my moving into a dangerous situation, so you need to assess that before you approach. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/15/2007 5:06:49 AM | This is becoming a tough one...
A work colleage 2 weeks ago stopped to help someone who was lying in the middle of the road next to a motor bike.. he rushed out of his car.. and within 20 seconds his car was been driven off by 2 men.. he tried to stop them.. turned around and the guy on the motor bike was heading off as well.....
the insurance company have told him to go and jump.. because he left the keys in the ignition........
so!!!!! the world today is making the good samaritan become the guy who turns a blind eye. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/16/2007 6:55:07 AM | | I would like to think I would, but I can't be certain. The reason being i was in a bad accident many years ago and it has left me quite traumatised, to the point of when I see an accident I freeze and have a panick attack. Maybe if i had no choice because there was no one else to help, I hope I would be able to overcome my fear. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/16/2007 7:07:37 AM | 7 years ago on the way home from a club, I witnessed the results of a pile up, I got out to help, there was a young lad screaming in his KA car, I managed to get the door open, there was smoke billowing out of the engine, I had never heard a human being scream like that before, he said it was his legs, I managed to get my hand down to move the seat back, and where his legs should have been was the engine..He died in my arms, he was around 20 years old, I suffered severe post traumatic stress, and within 6 weeks of the accident I had virtually stopped driving, I went from driving 38,000 miles a year to 400, we had to move house, as I could not cope with having to drive into town, and even now I hate driving, its not that I'm scared to drive, it is the effect that it had on me mentally, which to this day I still do not understand..
Do I regret it, no, at least he had someone to hold him in his last moments.. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/16/2007 9:26:33 AM | In this country yes of course. been trained in first aid and would do all I could.
Abroad though different story. My reason being an incident several years ago in germany.
An army medic helped treat a German family that had gone off the road. He litterally saved the lives of some of them. The father though was severely injured and left partially paralysed. Now because he wasn't treated by a doctor, only a medic, his insurance company wouldn't pay out and the family were attempting to sue said soldier for compensation.
As a result we were when in Germany under orders not to aid civillians.
Not sure of the outcome of the case but it is worth thinking about if you should be in that situation. | |
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| Would you help in a road accident?
Posted: 7/16/2007 10:03:49 AM | I deff would. Im a first aider though have never actually practiced it as such, im sure I would remember the essential parts ie mouth to mouth etc. I have a first aid kit and a blanket in the boot of my car though have never had to use them yet.
I think it is just a natural human reaction to get out and help though like Willow said if the situation was already in control then i wouldnt as would just get in the way i think. | |
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