Good Samaritan or Foolish Woman???
Watch this postYesterday I turned off the main road on to a country lane with fields on either side; there had been a hard frost during the night and there were icy patches on the road. I came across a car, overturned on to its roof, in a field. I stopped, slithered down a very slippery and muddy incline into the field and was then able to look through the car windows to make sure that no-one was trapped inside. Fortunately, the car was empty so I took a note of the car registration number (only visible in the field because the rear number plate was missing), returned to my car and rang the police on 101. They were very grateful that I had checked the interior of the car and said that the crew who had attended the accident didn't have any "police aware" tape in their car so had been unable to label the vehicle. Fortunately again, the occupants of the car had been uninjured. When I was explaining to friends (all, like me definitely the wrong side of 60 🙂 ) why I had been late for church, the majority were horrified that I had stopped to investigate. Several of them had driven past the car and not stopped because they said that you never know who might be lurking in the vicinity ready to attack and steal someone else's car! Had it been night-time and travelling alone, I think I would have rung the police before going into the field but the question is - would you check out an overturned vehicle or would you drive by on the other side of the road?
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So sorry to hear about the accident which your grandson witnessed. I'm not sure that it's ever possible to "get over" an incident such as that. Hopefully, as time passes and he can talk it all through with you and the rest of his family, the memory will fade to the back of his mind and it won't be the first thing he thinks about on waking and the last thing on his mind at night.
Many years ago a close family friend skidded off the road into a ditch and lay seriously injured in his car for over 24 hours before being found. No on stopped to check if there was anyone inside, mainly because they 'didn't want to get involved'. One person did eventually report it to the police. At the post mortem it was identified that he had taken approximately 12-15 hours before he died, death being attributed to hypothermia, and had he been found before that time he would have survived with no ill effects. What a tragedy.