I didn't see the story but caught the end of it about a lady that was lying in the road (staged i presume) and people were just driving past her with no offer of help.
My son fell off his bike on Wednesday and his friend had to drive back to mine to come and get me to help him (10 mins) when I got there he was sitting on the side of the pavement holding his arm obviously in a lot of pain and his bike was in a pile next to him.
Hes broke his hand (now in plaster). Not one person stopped to ask if he was o.k? I asked how many people passed and he said about 5 cars and about 10 people on foot.
I couldn't just walk past someone who was obviously in distress.

Wasn't staged - they think she'd been hit by a car.

Sad that people drove past - but they might have thought she was drunk, they might have been in a rush, they might have thought the person behind was bound to stop etc etc. No excuse, but a sad reflection of todays society :(

once i really banged my head open,2yrold colt pushed me flying onto concrete gate post,
i went to casulty along a road with my face totally COVERED with blood (cos you know how head wounds bleed)at least 20 cars past me & NOT one stopped

when nellie got stuck in the river & disolcated her leg,i had to carry her for miles,past loads of people ramblers,then cars including a police car, plus i was nearly hysreterical cos her leg was NOT where it should have been & she was screaming & i had no signal on my phone, only when id nearly got back to the car park did the one & only person offer to help

thats terrible what a society we live in when people cant stop to offer help, today I was lucky, I twisted my ankle and went down with bang an elderly gentleman came over to offer assistance not a lot he could do but at least he tried I was gratefull that the offer was there luckily my hubby was with me I wouldnt have managed to get up on my own it was so painful

Woman Left Injured On Busy Road

In France it is against the law NOT to help someone in need.

Daisy

Hi  Words fail me how can people just drive past leaving a fellow human being like that

I think it is very sad but i these days people are so cautious and also worried about getting sued for all sorts - a man touching a woman without her consent, giving first aid and then later  being sued for damage caused.... :(

I was told on my First Aid course to be aware of this. Dreadful really, what a reflection on the pc society...

Lindsay
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I was driving along a back road one evening.  It was broad daylight.  On my way to where I was going there was a car at the side of the road, half in the field, on it's roof and the wheels were still spinning - leading me to believe that the accident hadn't long happened.  I didn't stop.  I phoned the police and continued on my way.  You may think that I am a bad person for not stopping, but for all I know the car could have been stolen (not unheard of in the area I was passing through) and the occupants could have been waiting for their next victim.  Maybe I watch too many violent programs on television, but I wasn't taking the chance.  I'm not a bad person, but the society in which we live has made me wary of what may be a very innocent situation.

Whilst I can understand, I find that such a shame :( The occupants *may* have survived given immediate attention or died because they were left.

I know what you're saying, but at the same time I may have lost my own life or been injured.  I'm not a bad person, maybe just a selfish one.

And not just sued you here all these stories. What about if the woman wasn't really injured and when you when to help here there was someone waiting to steal you car? I know someone's life is much more important that you car but at the time you may not think of that. She was also lying on double yellow line and I bet you £5 quid that if a traffic warden had of walked pass you would have been given a parking ticket. Like when this man on a motorbike was knocked over by a car and as he lay in the road seriously injured with people trying to save his life a traffic warden gave him a parking fine because his motorbike had slide on to double yellow lines. :(

Sarah xxxx

The sickest thing I've ever seen was a few years ago in a village nearby. I was a passenger in a friends car one evening and as we drove along, at the top of a road (leading into an estate) we saw a bicycle in the middle of the road. A few feet away was a body, next to it, a head. Can you imagine how we felt ?. It was awful. Of course, we stopped, intending to run to the nearest house to phone police (makes you realise how wonderful mobiles are nowadays). As we pulled up, I glanced behind, scared to see the scene again. It turned out to be a disgusting prank - a youth was running towards us, the head belonged to a shop dummy. Even now I fail to see a funny side to it - he obviously did. We drove off quickly and even though we informed police afterwards they couldn't do a thing. Despite the fact that I know it wasn't real, the picture stays with me and is horrible. However, it would never prevent me from stopping to help if I ever saw somebody in trouble - I'd ring for assistance before I approached though.

Val

At least this lady was OK in the end, what about the story about the women who was stalked and stabbed 3 times and for over 30 minuets people saw and NO-ONE phoned the police till after it had all happend.  We were learning about it all today in psychology and to see what people will NOT do and then their excuses...It's horrible. 

Joe broke his leg at school the other week and loads of Lad around him just laughted and told him to get up!  He had broken both bones in his right leg!!!!!

The thing is many people are not aware of what the true situation is and think it is nothing, other people think they may get into trouble if they stop and help!

In the example of calling the police, people may be scarred about being a witness and having to have witness protection because they end up putting someone in jail, they didn't think about saving someones life!!!!!

Saying that How many of you WILL stop in a simalur situation, I would like to say that I would, but if I was 100% truthful I don't know if I would or not!

Thanks for that Admin, I thought it was a staged thing to see how people would react, terrible world we live in today.
I would certainly stop to help anyone I thought were in distress. I might keep my distance as you don't know if they are faking to pinch your bag etc. A simple "Are you o.k.?" won't get you sued and might save someones life if they are lying dying.

When I was at University I shared a house with a girl and 2 lads. The girl and one of the lads were very christian, church goers.
One night we heard some shouting outside, looked out the window and saw an old man was being beaten up by some one with a snooker cue. Myself and one of the lads (the non christian) jumped up and ran outside to help. The fact we came outside was enough to scare the mugger off, and we tried to help the old man inside while the police and ambulance arrived. The other 2 who had stayed indoors, then said no, don't let him in, don't get involved, (the old man was pretty drunk). I found this astonishing. Afterwards they tried to argue that it could have all been a ploy to get in the house or we could have go hurt etc... but to me, doing nothing would have been worse. It would have gone ound and round in my head... "what if." I couldn't live with myself knowing I hadn't done everything I could to help, even if it meant being hurt. I really couldn't help but see my 2 friends in a different light after that night.

yup alot of people ignore . me and my mum were coming back from shopping in the middle of town one day when we saw this lad and his girlfriend argueing he started beating her up in the middle of the bus stop no one said anything people were just moving out there way . my mum stopted the car in the middle of the road and shouted at the lad if you dont stop that youl get a punch from me he stopted then the manin the behind  car got out went over and wacked him :P

im a christian and would help anyone id put it down to them being too scared to do anything they would probably like to have done somthing so just gave an excuse . lots of people do

Remember the story of the "Good Samaritan"? "Passing by on the other side" is not new, sadly! I'm a Christian, too, and it's a very challenging story, since it was a priest and a Levite who didn't help the poor man.....

OMG that is sad :(

Nothing surprises me any more. :( I was the first person in a number of cars who stopped where a car had hit a tree. The driver (invisible from the road) died while I was reassuring him that someone with a mobile (it was 10 years ago now) would phone for help. They didn't. The first person to phone an ambulance was someone I flagged down after the man's pulse had stopped. :(

That must be a terrible memory for you JG :(

Daisy

I make sure I always stop and offer to help now. It might be me one day, that everyone is ignoring.

Just to say Jeangenie, There was probably no hope anyway. Around here we look at a 20 mins wait for an ambulance, So going on that, and the length of time it would take to get him stable and get him to hospital(even if the ambulance had got there sooner) in the back of a bumpy 'van' He would have died anyway :( Sad but true :(

Whether or not there was any hope for him, at least you were there WITH him JG - I will always stop if I think someone is in trouble - okay, so one day it might get ME into trouble - but if it doe, at least I won't be left thinking "oh if only I had..."   

Provided my mobile is charged up (which often it isn't ;) ) I will let someone know what I am doing......

I always think - what if it was me - or one of mine......

Margot (sticking her nose into everything - just like the dogs :D )

I know there was no hope for him, he was too badly injured - but I still get angry that nobody else wanted to know ...

Jeangenie. I stop to ask if they are ok all the time. Probably comes from sitting at the side of RTA's in the middle of the road as dad had stooed jumped out of the car and disappeared to try and help (he was an ambulance technician!!!!!!!!!!!!) so it runs in the blood. Would never poas someone by. OK, if I didnt feel comfortable with it I would pass them by and then ring 999 which I haver done when I saw a blko punch a women in the face. I was on my own with 2 young children at the time. I near enough ran round the corner. rang 999 and told them what happend and exactly where it was.
I dont think it made any difference, as have since found out who the women is, and that she is still being beaten up :(
Lea

My dad was driving along the  with me and my ex hubbie in the back from London to Bristol back in 88.  there was a car had gone off the road and was burning.  My Dad stopped straight away.  He grabbed a wrench or some such from the boot, as the occupants were trapped.  He smached the window and they got out, just in time too, as by the time the next car had stopped to help their car had gone bang.  so if dad had not stopped they would maybe have been badly burned or killed.

Before the  was built he stopped a lot for various accidents, fir somne it was too late, but in other cases he was able to help.

I would always stop and try to help.

When i was a kid my parents always stopped if they saw an accident, and helped. In fact i recall one time, seeing a motorcyclist on the other side of a dual carriageway get swiped off his bike by someone clipping his front wheel as they cut in front of him. In the time it took for us to pull over, my mum and dad to dash across to the other side of the road and help him, about ten cars had passed, and not ONE had stopped to scrape this poor lad off the tarmac.

I once found a lady lying in the road. I dont drive, my friend was driving and she wasnt keen on stopping, but i made her (she sat in the car and gibbered and i had to TELL her to put her hazards on!!!!!!!!).

Unfortunately for me, the lady lying in the road had been attempting to kill herself by throwing herself in the path of passing cars, and when i approached and trying to talk to her, she smashed me in the face. Still, i backed off, called the police and an ambulance because she was clearly in need of help!

My friend said she would  have never stopped and because i got smacked in the face she never will...... i find that very sad. Id rather risk a smack in the face from someone than ignore them and let them die!

Em

Maybe this depends on where you live? It has never occurred to me not to stop for a car accident unless the ambulance and fire brigade are already there. The one time I had a car accident myself quite a few people stopped. Not that they were of much help. :) The car was upside down with the doors too warped to open and me suspended from the seat belt. I had a puppy with me and did manage to get the (unfortunately unbroken) driver window down enough to hand it out. Perhaps the bemusement of the people who stopped had something to do with the disembodied arm sticking out the window and holding a wriggling pup? :D