Caution when stopping to help after an Acident.

[neilwillis]

Yep, first rule in any accident is DO NOT MOVE the casualty unless they are in more danger by staying put.

I would also suggest that if you intend to practice first aid, you get insurance cover first.   If anything you do results in harm to the casualty, it can cost you a fortune.   It's a sad indictment of society today, but you get no thanks for trying to do the right thing.

[Boomy]

I think most people are aware of the fact you should never move a victim (most), but all we have to go on here are a few words from someone who owns or works in a salvage yard as to what happened.

In fact, we have no idea at all what happened.It simply says there was an accident.

Who knows, maybe the crashed vehicle/vehicles were p******** out petrol and they thought it may explode.Maybe a huge lorry was bearing down on the wreckage with all 18 wheels locked up.Maybe the injured driver was busy collecting his cd's, sweets, phone and anything else he didn't want to leave in the car as the Jag owner approached and was stepping out of the car.

Maybe he just told the Jag owner time and time and time again that he was absolutely fine and just wanted to get warm.

Make your own reason up really.

I know if i were to crash a car, feel ok in myself and a passer by told me to sit still and not move when all i wanted to do was get out of the car and maybe have a ciggy or get some air, nothing he/she said would make me sit still.

They would have to knock me out i guess to make me stay.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

ASSIST THE INJURED PERSON FROM THEIR CAR AND PLACED THE PERSON ONTO THE BACK SEAT OF HIS

Hmm, semantics, it's still a bit third hand to go taking it out on the Jag driver. People helped me while I was staggering around, so I guess at least two could be said to have "assisted me" to my own back seat.  

However, I guess the moral isn't just that you shouldn't move someone, but that you should also do what you can to make sure they don't move themselves.

[westyblade]

Wasn't there a similar story one here a few months back but in that instance it was a police Mondeo.  I think was entitled " a cheap duratec??" but can't find it atm.  

i remember that.

[Blatman]

However, I guess the moral isn't just that you shouldn't move someone, but that you should also do what you can to make sure they don't move themselves.

Quite right. If a casualty like Boomy was quite obviously able to move about under his own steam, then let them. But there is also a time when someone needs to take charge and refuse any requests to move a casualty. And yes, I have been at rather too many accidents and watched idiots moving people around without supporting heads/necks/limbs etc, and I have also witnessed far too many do gooders, on seing an injured motorcyclist, tying to remove their crash hats. That's the last thing you should be doing, unless they have stopped breathing...

[the bear]

Same thing (nearly) happened to me back in 1999. Driving to golf and saw an accident in front of me when a van pulled out in front of a Sierra. The Volvo directly in front did'nt stop.

The sierra was stopped in the middle of a dangerous bend (Tempsford curve and the crossover to Barford on the A1 before it was changed if anyone knows it).

We stopped over the other side of the junction and went back to help. The woman driver was out of her car and wandering in the road so we moved her to the side of the road, phoned the law and I grabbed the warning triangle from the back of my 5 series BM and legged it up the road to warn the oncoming traffic to slow down. within a few minutes the law arrived and took over so I went back to the car. My mate had sat her down in the paasenger seat to keep her warm and she seemed OK.

The ambulance crew arrived and asked her how she was and she complained of a pain in her neck. The ambulance crew decided she had to come out of the car on a back board.

Sh#t did I panic thinking they would call the fire boys and romove the roof but with a bit of a struggle and some assistance from me we manged to slip the board behind her and support her while we reclined the seat. The drivers seat was pushed forward as far as it would go and with a sign of relief she exited via the drivers side rear door. The crew were great not a mark on the Silver grey leather or paintwork.

My mate got slapped for letting her in the car though  

[nikpro]

Lets face it; the jag driver is a complete and utter to**er - if he had been driving a Westie they wouldn't have had to cut the roof off!