helping other road users out

[crazymac]

I will usually stop and offer assistance, but one word of caution that was given to me! The story goes like this (not sure if real, but certainly plausable)

Guy in a new BMW stops at the scene of a recent accident to offer assistance. Driver of crashed car is wandering about, so is asked if he's OK? replys yes! so BMW driver says, sit in my car till emergency people arrive! Man does this, and ambulance duly arrives. Paramedic approaches crash victim sat in BMW and asks "are you OK?" to which the reply is "yes, but my neck hurts"  Paramedic automatically has to assume spinal, so collars the guy up, and calls brigade over. Brigade proceed to cut the roof off the BMW!!!!!!! then cuts the seat out and the guy is carried off to waiting ambulance.

BMW owner then tries to claim for his brand new car, and is told to BOG OFF!! as he put himself in the situation!!!!!

[Bush Tucker Man]

Guy in a new BMW stops at the scene of a recent accident to offer assistance.

BMW driver says, sit in my car till emergency people arrive!

Brigade proceed to cut the roof off the BMW!!!!!!! then cuts the seat out and the guy is carried off to waiting ambulance.

BMW owner then tries to claim for his brand new car, and is told to BOG OFF!! as he put himself in the situation!!!!!

Plausible, but also seemingly a common story

Surely one of our Police/Paramedic/Fire Service members can tell us if this is a policy for wherever they work.

My wife & I did it with a young girl a couple of years after her boyfriend had slid wide on a corner, tried to correct & went down a ditch into a stone wall.
Thankfully she was only suffering from a lacerated hand/wrist

It was only 3 days before I px'd the Discovery for the 110, so the above story would not have been well received  :doh:

Link here

One final point;

Guy in a new BMW stops at the scene of a recent accident to offer assistance.

BMW driver says, sit in my car till emergency people arrive!

Now surely that's the ficticious part of it all????
A B*W driver helping someone else!!!!
Did he cut across 3 lanes, without indicatiing to do it, whilst on the phone?? :lol: :lol:

[Lucy1978]

Done all of them at various times. been given money a few times, one lady was broken down on a blind bend so I towed her to somewhere a bit safer, found out what was wrong with her car, topped it up with water and gave her the number of a good garage, was given 20 quid for it 
Towed a BMW out of a ditch, didn't even get a thank you, like wise when I towed a 7.5t removals van out of a ford that was in flood (with road closed signs out).

[Defender]

I must admit I don't trust the towing points they put on ordinary cars.
My mate tried to pull someone out of a ditch & managed to rip the front of the car off.  :lol:
Something akin to this:  (click image for video)

I'm not claiming credit for the video. I found it somewhere on the web & have edited it down to 1min 15secs.

[Ja1983]

Judge each situation as you find it. do not put yourself at unnecessary risk, (eg on a blind corner) where specialist services are better equipt to manage the situation safely (hi-vis, lights etc)

..and if you are pulling and it starts creaking..... get a good run at it for a better result!! (plus friend with a camera :lol: