On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:50:48PM +0000, Cotty wrote: > > Shit happens. I've never been attacked, but then again I tend not to > film road accidents until well after they have happened, when police and > CSI are on scene and the area is closed to the public. This is because I > am sent there by the newsdesk after they have found out about them. > These incidents are always fatal and unpleasant.
It's not a lot of fun if you get there before the police arrive, either. Many years ago I was driving up the M6 with some friends when we spotted a group of cars pulled off at the side of the road. We found that an old car (a gift to the young couple in it from the father of one of them, who was one of the other drivers present at the scene) had gone off the road and overturned. When I got there everybody was trying to lift the car up so they could free the young woman passenger - she hadn't been wearing a seat belt, and had gone through the windscreen. I could see this wasn't going to do any good, but at least they weren't going to do her any more harm; she was beyond help. I got what details I could, and sent somebody off to call the police. It was only when I started asking more questions that I got to the important one - how many people had been in the car? Until then nobody had even thought about that. There was a three-year-old boy in the back of the car, basically unharmed except for minor scratches. I got him out and sat him in the back of my car to keep him warm. One of my passengers was a primary school teacher, so she knew how to deal with children, which was more than I did! Eventually the police arrived and dealt with everything. When I eventually got to leave around an hour later I didn't quite make it to the filling station - I'd used up just a little too much fuel running the car on idle to keep the heater going while we were looking after the youngster, so I had to walk the last half mile carrying a petrol can. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
