Spiced said:
That's beautiful, just amazing.
Now here's what humans do these days...
[YOUTUBE]
Just sad.
It's kind of unfair to judge what people do in that kind of situation. In our minds, we like to think that in that scenario, we would run straight in, stop the traffic, try to see the extent of the injuries whilst telling someone to call an ambulance. Thing is, when this kind of thing happens in front of your eyes.....it scares you, sometimes to the point where you will freeze on the spot.
Me and some friends were going for a drive on a nice summers day, we turn the next road to see a long line of cars and looking ahead we see a car flipped, smoke pouring out and the engine revving high. We jumped out and started running up to the car. We went up there with the intent to help if we could, try and be heroes a bit I suppose. As I was running up a lot of people were just sat in there cars or had got out and were just staring, I was thinking, what the hell is up with these people??
When I got to the overturned car, what I saw froze me to the spot. Basically the car had flipped onto it's side, and the drivers window must have been open, the guys head was out of the window and the top of the window connecting to the roof had landed on top of his head, crushing it into the concrete. There was no doubt about it, the guy was dead. My friend crawled into the front of the car to get a closer look just to see if there was any sign of life, but he was a goner.
There was another car involved in the incident further up the road and my friend ran up to check on them. All the while I am trembling and feeling nauseas and couldn't move or take my eyes off it. My friend comes back asking me to follow him because he needs me to try to break the door off this car because I was stronger then him, but I couldn't move and just shook my head and told him that he shouldn't be moving anyone anyway (the guy had a bad knee injury apparently and removing the door would have been an attempt to get the guy out of the car).
My friends stepdad is a paramedic, and later we found out that the guy who died had been racing home because his wife had called to say their newborn baby wasn't breathing properly and the ambulance was on it's way. Turns out that the baby was fine and the mother was over-reacting. Very sad story.
Anyway, I guess my point is that it's easy to look at a video and think that people are heartless and don't care, but until you have been in that kind of situation yourself you don't truly know how you are going to react. I ran up there with every intent to help out but lost it when I got there. Even if you are the kind of person to not get phased in the heat of the moment, then you still have to acknowledge that not everybody can react like that. My friend who crawled into the front of the car had more guts than me, though he told me he didn;t sleep well for weeks after.
Methtical