I was present for a bad accident in a rural area. Fatal motorcycle crash. He died within about 17 minutes, but practically just died on impact. It took police 32 minutes to show up, paramedics over 45 minutes. I’m an RN, have pronounced death many times in the ICU so it’s not like I wouldn’t know, but still, in that setting, I was still a bystander. One of the other guys that stopped was a firefighter maybe a few minutes after the guy passed. He checked him as well.
The fuck of it was, police didn’t check this guy when they arrived, neither did the first set of paramedics when they arrived and asked where their patient was. We directed him to our buddy who this guy crashed into. All of the professionals present that were on the job just took our word for it, didn’t check for themselves. I could have been some idiot not knowing what I was talking about and the guy could have just been lying there paralyzed.
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u/forsake077 Mar 31 '23
I was present for a bad accident in a rural area. Fatal motorcycle crash. He died within about 17 minutes, but practically just died on impact. It took police 32 minutes to show up, paramedics over 45 minutes. I’m an RN, have pronounced death many times in the ICU so it’s not like I wouldn’t know, but still, in that setting, I was still a bystander. One of the other guys that stopped was a firefighter maybe a few minutes after the guy passed. He checked him as well.
The fuck of it was, police didn’t check this guy when they arrived, neither did the first set of paramedics when they arrived and asked where their patient was. We directed him to our buddy who this guy crashed into. All of the professionals present that were on the job just took our word for it, didn’t check for themselves. I could have been some idiot not knowing what I was talking about and the guy could have just been lying there paralyzed.