How do you react if you are first at an accident?

As has been said above your own safety is critical, the first thing I did was put on a flourescent vest as carried for continental trips, nice and handy in the door pocket, I also retrieved my fire extinguisher from the boot as the loader was smoking a lot due to hydraulic oil and diesel spilling over the hot engine.

Its good to see others would do the same and help out, I hope that if I ever need it someone like that comes to my help rather than the useless gawpers who watched this morning.
 
Top tip: drive past the accident and pull up the other side of the incident. That way you can actually continue your journey after you've helped.

I've never had to properly sort anyone out at the roadside. Without paramedic kit you're very limited. I should really get a pocket mask for my car to avoid actual mouth to mouth.
 
Seen a few and I'm out the car and on the phone whether anyone else has called the 999 or not. Takes a while to get through all the flim flam about who I am and which service I require anyway, so I have had time to asses what is needed by the time I get up close.
Feels good to help people.
I've done Fire Service(Building on fire as I drove past), police and ambulance car/ bike accident.

Like you say though, it's shocking to see so many people with their thumb up their ass and their blinkers on..

Yea you drive on by mate, never mind about the bloke with his neck broken in the ditch... ****s :mad:
 
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Burnsy2023 said:
This usually requires a RIPA authorisation and will certainly not be shown automatically.
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I never said automatically, it's been a while since I worked directly on 999 systems in the UK but there was certainly the functionality ~6 years ago where you could ask the caller for authorisation to query their location. :)
 
I've witnessed an accident happen at 3am outside my parents' house. Drunk driver, stolen car, speeding, flew over a mini roundabout into a parked van.

Called 999 first, then my mum insie the house (who's a nurse), then went to get the chap out of the car, which now had a lot of smoke coming out of the engine. Chap was surprisingly ok, ignored me, and then went to set the car on fire (!!!) before running away. Later find out he did so because of the drinking and theft.
 
a lot of people I find just sit and watch. If i'm in my own car then i'll secure that somewhere and jump straight in with triage and treatment.. if i'm in the Ambulance. Whack the blues on and make the scene safe and start triage and treatment :)
 
Me and my dad came upon a car on it's roof, there were already some people stopped so Dad got out and asking if anyone was stuck or hurt, the answer was 'no', so we picked our way through and went home. I think that was reasonable.
 
Very briefly - DRA, stabilisation, glass management to begin with. Casualty carer and assistant medic enter the vehicle and begin work assessing casualty condition and degree of entrapment ( if any ), packaging them and maintaining the c-spine.

Plan A extrication and plan B ( rapid ) extrication put in place and commences. Casualty removed, make vehicles safe, gather details of vehicle and casualties involved. Make-up kit. Hot debrief. Job done. :cool:
 
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6thElement said:
I never said automatically, it's been a while since I worked directly on 999 systems in the UK but there was certainly the functionality ~6 years ago where you could ask the caller for authorisation to query their location. :)
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That's fair enough, but people still seem to think there's a difference between 112 and 999 which isn't the case.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
That's fair enough, but people still seem to think there's a difference between 112 and 999 which isn't the case.
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Im not trying to be pedantic, but I think its worth pointing out that one difference is that 112 works anywhere in Europe and also in some African/Asian countries, whereas 999 is limited to just the UK and a few others.
 
when i was in a car chars in front of a police station and they never gave a ****, i would just leave them too it if your not in the medical profession
 
I'll stop if it's safe to. I was once behind a really nasty smash in pea soup fog involving four cars, leaving three of them upside down all across the road. Luckily I was going very slowly and was able to drive though them, but I could see people were hurt inside and the cars were too mangled for them to get out. Other people on the road were going way too fast to see it in time though, and I deemed it too dangerous to stop. I have no doubt that behind me people were ploughing into the accident.
 
ubersonic said:
Im not trying to be pedantic, but I think its worth pointing out that one difference is that 112 works anywhere in Europe and also in some African/Asian countries, whereas 999 is limited to just the UK and a few others.
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I was referring specifically within the UK.
 
I have a friend who is a surgeon who has said he won't help it he is off duty because his insurance won't cover him and he has heard too many stories of his colleagues getting sued after the incident for getting involved and ambulance chasers convincing people that proper care wasnt taken. Not sure I could not get involved myself.
 
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