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The topic of today’s post is a very serious one - stopping to help and why you should too. The other day, I was coming home from my girlfriends house, when I came across a familiar scene. Two cars had collided at an intersection. As I approached, I saw cars were passing by the scene, and figured that everything was probably under control. I quickly noticed as I myself was passing, that it was a fairly serious accident.

It looked as though it was a head on collision, and I didn’t see any emergency workers on the scene or anything. I stopped and rolled down my window, as one of the drivers was sitting in his car with his window down.

“Are you ok?” He responded with a shake of the head no. “Do you have a cell phone?” He responded with a forced, “I cant get it to work.”

It was clear that these people were in trouble, judging by the damage to the cars, and with no apparent help in sight, I pulled over, put the hazards on, and started dialing 911.

As I approached the other car, I saw the driver outside by the rear passenger door doing something. He was trying to speak to me, but I couldn’t understand what he was saying - something about his mother. As I was on the phone with the dispatcher, I saw the guys legs go wobbly, and then he hit the pavement like a sack of bricks. I didn’t have a second to even try to catch this guy.

The guy was still conscious, as asking me to check on his mother. I looked in the car, and saw two other male passengers - I didn’t know what he was talking about.  In all honesty, I thought the guy in the front seat was dead the way he was slumped over the air bag, not even moving.

I asked the guy again “Where’s your mom,” and he replied “Beside me.”  To my shock, I realized that when he collapsed, he had fallen ontop of his mother, who was already lying on the pavement, unconscious and bleeding from her head.  At this time, another girl had stopped and was trying to help as well. All the time I was on the phone with the dispatcher relaying her information about the victims and the scene of the accident.

When I finally got off of the phone, I tried my best to keep everyone calm, as to my surprise, no one other than the girl and one other person stopped to offer assistance.  The lady on the ground was being comforted by the girl, but was still barely moving, but was at least alive.  The other three occupants managed to get out of the car on their own, but were all complaining of various injuries.

Once the police, fire and ambulance arrived, I was told that since I didn’t actually witness the accident, that I didn’t have to stay any longer.  They had it under control.

I had asked the driver of the other vehicle who was sitting in his car what had happened before I left, and he said that we was making a left on the yellow light, and the family of 4 didn’t stop when he thought they would, resulting in the accident.

In all honesty, I’m glad I stopped to help - these people were definitely in trouble, and as other people simply drove by, I decided to do the right thing and step in to help.  Who knows how much longer they would have had to wait for someone to stop, let alone call 911 for help.

I would like to think that if I was in a similar situation, someone would be there for me, despite the fact that I’m a complete stranger to them, to help out their fellow man.

I don’t have a lot more to say about the topic, as I think my account of the scene is powerful enough to get my message through.  If you see someone in need of help, do the right thing and stop.  Whether its a car accident, or someone that trips and falls, when there’s a person in need, sometimes YOU have to go out of your way and be the one that steps in.  Don’t be the one that drives on by, not wishing to inconvenience their own lives by someone else’s plight.

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