You Think We Have Rta Issues In Britain?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-38839363
Just imagine india.

[jackthehat]

Thankfully our mindset is completely different in the UK.
It must be awful for anyone injured in this way not to receive immediate assistance or comfort...

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// Thankfully our mindset is completely different in the UK. ///

What could you possibly be saying jack?

[jackthehat]

That we don't have to concern ourselves with the thoughts that we could be held responsible for either the accident, or the medical bills.
That's all.

[ummmm]

Errr...that we would stop to help knowing we wouldn't be implicated.

[Sqad]

Difficult issue.........
I would assume, that most people would stop to give help at a RTA....but there are hidden dangers.
On one occasion I stopped to give assistance to a motor cyclist who looked in a spot of bother and was "manhandled" by a bystander who pushed me away saying "Get away, I am a First Aider".....I didn't argue.
The other problem is..."would you know what to do?" and would your intervention endanger the life of the victim? Easy to address a hypothetical accident, but a different ball game to address the real thing.
I never stop at accidents.
if you have a medical qualification then you are expected to give the standard of car expected of a person with appropriate qualifications and if it is believed that you have fallen short of this standard of care.......you can be sued in a court of Law.

Not easy....

[ToraToraTora]

well you could call an ambulance rather than stand around filming the poor sod.

[Sqad]

TTT....there is nothing to suggest that an ambulance wasn't called.
If one waited for an ambulance as one often waits in the UK, the outlook may well have been the same.

[237SJ]

"Call an ambulance" This is India. I don't think I have ever seen an ambulance in India

[cassa333]

In India they don't help because they think they will have to pay for the medical treatment of the stranger.

That is so ingrained that they would rather see them die than help.

[EDDIE51]

I saw an accident here near my house.Two people hit by a car. I didn't have my phone with me but others did. They got out their phones but only to start filming it for Facebook ! Luckily the local shop keeper had also seen it and called 999.