Vent - bloody selfish sods leaving an injured man in the road!

ahrimaniac

Well Christ, what an experience I've had today. Went out for a pleasant walk in the sunshine whilst I'm out of work (boo) and sauntered down into the countryside near Newcastle. Walking along the road, I see a guy lying in the road up ahead, clearly bloodied.

I also see two cars carefully driving round him and carrying on.

When I got there, turned out he had come off his bike and was in a pretty bad way - arms shredded, face bloodied, pale as anything. Massive chunk missing from his bicycle helmet so must have cracked his head. He managed to tell me he'd taken a speed-bump a bit too quick (on a push bike! He must have been going quite a lick).

Called an ambulance - another car drove past. Then he started fitting, which was bloody scary, then he was out, not moving. Checked and it felt like he had no pulse, which really was frightening, and I gave him (literally only ten seconds but felt like an age) mouth to mouth and heart massage, and he came back round pretty instantly.

Am totally bemused. Ambulance gets there, load him into the back and away they go. They've got my details. One of those things. Made me aware that I need to learn more first aid as I had no clue.

All that aside - am totally, utterly amazed and disgusted by the fact that three cars drove around him. I mean he was lying in the bloody road. Is this what we've come to?

Meh. Horrible bit of a good day. By all accounts by the way he was going to be alright, guess he had a history of something though to go like that.

dori2o

Well done you for being such a good person to stop and help. You can be very proud of yourself and your efforts may have saved this persons life.

It's not the same in anyway but I have experienced this myself. Due to my disability I am prone to falling and have had 2 falls recently where people have literally walked over me.

1 was in the Arndale Centre in Manchester. My knee gave way and I was suddenly on the floor. About 4 or 5 people walked past or over me, with one woman shouting I should be watching what I'm doing????? Luckily enough a lovely lady came over and picked me up and helped me into a shop in the centre where they sat me down and made sure I was OK. A local police officer also came over and escorted me to work to make sure I got there OK.

The second one was a fall at work, in the office, with people I have worked with for 7 years.

I was walking back from the kitchen with a plastic cup of water when my knee gave way again (there is no warning at all it just goes, yet the doctors claim it is stable?????)

I remember hitting the floor, and I must have hit it hard with my knee as it opened up part of a 3 yr old scar (6 inch scar on my knee from my anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction) and they managing to roll onto my back, as I did so 2 people walked right past me. A team leader and a girl off another team who saw me on her way back to her desk from wherever she had been and couldn't help giggling when she looked at me.

A guy off my team put his caller on hold and helped me to get up.

I am unsure what it is with some people, maybe they are scared of helping, maybe they are just ignorant, maybe they think because I'm a 6ft 16st bloke with a big build I don't need help.

I applaud you for your efforts however and wish there were a lot more like you.

aliasojo

dori2o wrote: »

Well done you for being such a good person to stop and help. You can be very proud of yourself and your efforts may have saved this persons life.

I am unsure what it is with some people, maybe they are scared of helping, maybe they are just ignorant, maybe they think because I'm a 6ft 16st bloke with a big build I don't need help.

I applaud you for your efforts however and wish there were a lot more like you.

Agree.

Similar situation happened with my Dad. Thankfully one person stopped to help whilst the rest sauntered on past.

I'm on the fence as to the reason why more people don't stop to offer help. My kinder side agrees that perhaps they are just scared, out of their depth and have no clue what to do. My harder side thinks that maybe they just dont want the hassle to affect their day.

Good on you OP.

Widelats

Saw a guy laid down on his own path, there was a person there at the gate taking pictures of him, i asked this person do they know him and they said no, and walked off - so i got this guy to wake up, got him on his feet and in his house, and that is all people would do is stand and look at him freezing to death rather than wake him up. There was a car wash opposite where he was too and all the staff were just stood looking.

bluebeary

very well done, you maybe even saved his life there

thats shocking that people drove round him, are there any cameras on the road to maybe see who they were, their car registrations ?

i hope the cyclist makes a full recovery and stays in touch with you

balmk

Unfortunately in this day and age people are too scared to interact with others, whether for fear of crime, or of litigation. I know from experience that when I was a child, young people would help old ladies across the road (cliche, but true). Can you imagine the reaction today if a youth went over to an older person and held their hand out to help?

The milk of human kindness has been somewhat soured by scare-mongering stories in the press of people pretending to have collapsed and them mugging people, or of those who have trued to help someone in distress only to find it comes and bites them on the backside further down the line.

faerie_girl

Theres something called bystander syndrome where everything think someone else will help so they carry on walking. I am sure I heard of something in New York years ago where someone was bleeding to death in a busy street, blood pooring over the pavement, and everyone walked past him.

hoyles10

Well done you If I saw someone lying in the road i'd make sure I stopped to make sure they were ok and phone an ambulance, I don't think I could live with myself if I ignored them and would dread seeing on the news that someone had been found dead in the road.

Some poor bloke got knocked off his motorbike at the top of our street a few weeks ago, whilst he was lay in the road waiting for the ambulance and police to arrive as he was in a pretty bad way several cars just drove round him, a couple even mounted the pavement to get round then some idiot came speeding up the road, didn't see him and hit him again before driving off. I know he ended up in intensive care but don't know what happened after that, I just hope he recovered and the police caught the person who hit him again.

jonnyd281

There is anecdotal evidence from the US that medical professionals will walk past a person in distress because they are afraid of being sued if they intervene and the person dies, or, is disable by life saving treatment. With the likes of injury lawyers 4 u and the other ambulance chasers, I feel it is only going to get worse in this country.

relic

Bloody selfish injured man laying in the road!!

Mupette

dori2o wrote: »

A team leader and a girl off another team who saw me on her way back to her desk from wherever she had been and couldn't help giggling when she looked at me.

my god as soon as i was able i'd be over to her and asking her what her problem is, that is just so rude