RTA M6.

[chaparral]

Those G-Wiz things should be banned, they are death traps.

But the death trap thing could also be said about motorbikes...

 

[kindai]

Blood, guts, gore, doesnt bother me, have seen some bad things in my time, someone who took a small fall over a log who ended up "peeling" the skin off his bottom leg as it got caught on some razor wire on the other side.

Another guy who got caught by some wire that was cut under tension, it literally sliced him open so you could see guts, organs, the lot, yet it missed anything major and they just stapled him back up and sent him on his way after a couple of days.

Someone who pulled a curved saw down past his leg unaware and took a nice slice out of it.

The one thing which I cant stand however, when broken bones are bulging the skin, oh god that makes me feel queezy. Eg if someone feel off a house and broke their leg, id rather see the leg missing and blood pouring out than looking at a leg at a 90 degree angle to what it should be...

 

[Fido McNasty]

Things come and go. When I read about this last week I was fairly sure it was something a bit out of the ordinary for you, and lets think about that. It was out of the ordinary. No one wants to see sometimes what they see but it does get better like has been said. I can cite some things which only time for me has helped me deal with.

Keep well and absolutely keep positive.

 

[Freefaller]

How horrid

I was first on a scene of a skydiving incident, and whilst there was no obvious dismemberment or other major blood drawing injuries (all internal injuries) it was still haunting to see as the person was bent in an unnatural position (broken hip, and leg at an impossible angle), as well as skull and spinal fractures. I can imagine how she must have felt, and despite being a first aider, I felt useless. Nothing I had been taught could do anything, she wasn't really conscious either. She unfortunately succumbed to her injuries later that day

I do have the odd flashback now and again, but since I no longer take part in the sport I am not reminded of it often, and so it sort of disappears out of your mind. In your case though... not sure how you cope with these sort of things, but everyone is different,. IF you feel badly affected by it, I'd urge you to consider counselling or at least talking to a professional about it to help the transition of what has happened.

All the best mate, and if you want to chat, email me. Heck I'll even give you my number if you feel that would help.

 

[Scania]

Things come and go. When I read about this last week I was fairly sure it was something a bit out of the ordinary for you, and lets think about that. It was out of the ordinary. No one wants to see sometimes what they see but it does get better like has been said. I can cite some things which only time for me has helped me deal with.

Keep well and absolutely keep positive.

Thanks mate.

How horrid

I was first on a scene of a skydiving incident, and whilst there was no obvious dismemberment or other major blood drawing injuries (all internal injuries) it was still haunting to see as the person was bent in an unnatural position (broken hip, and leg at an impossible angle), as well as skull and spinal fractures. I can imagine how she must have felt, and despite being a first aider, I felt useless. Nothing I had been taught could do anything, she wasn't really conscious either. She unfortunately succumbed to her injuries later that day

I do have the odd flashback now and again, but since I no longer take part in the sport I am not reminded of it often, and so it sort of disappears out of your mind. In your case though... not sure how you cope with these sort of things, but everyone is different,. IF you feel badly affected by it, I'd urge you to consider counselling or at least talking to a professional about it to help the transition of what has happened.

All the best mate, and if you want to chat, email me. Heck I'll even give you my number if you feel that would help.

Thanks Freefaller, much appreciated.

I know Fido above personally and appreciate his sentiments but to have such an offer from someone who I know solely by a forum name is touching, thank you.

It's still with me now,not helped by the police phoning me at 8am Sunday morning wanting to know about my trucks dash cam, I enquired as to the health of the drivers to find the girl driving the Corsa (as it turned out to be) had indeed died, she was heading back to Uni after Christmas and was 21 years old, I have a daughter of similar age myself.

What I saw I wish I hadn't, I can't and I won't describe it, I'm glad I stopped to help but really regret doing so if that's not a contradiction? And I hated driving past the "incident here" signs on the M6 at that point last night.

Thanks all, I wanted to vent and doing so in faceache and here has helped, a lot.

 

[Dis86]

was 21 years old, I have a daughter of similar age myself.

That's pretty much the worst thing you can do. Really, do not dwell on that aspect. As FF says if it does keep popping up, speak to someone him included (nice offer ). If you don't wanna do that, well we're generally all here anyways.

Also don't kick yourself for stopping. It's a good thing. You wanted to help. It's just a shame you couldn't in this case. That doesn't mean some other time you can't.

 

[Lowe]

Saw the signs up this evening when joining the M6 at J9. Sorry you had to see that, awful stuff.

 

[Scania]

Saw the signs up this evening when joining the M6 at J9. Sorry you had to see that, awful stuff.

Aye, it happened between the exit and entry slip of J9.

I was pleased to be going north tonight for a change!

 

[hominid]

Those G-Wiz things should be banned, they are death traps.

It doesn't help when the person didn't have a seat belt on, and was on the phone, whilst turning right across a live carriageway.

I feel for the people that have to clean it up, day after day..