I think ALL drivers should have to do basic first aid as part of licensing.
I also think regular retesting of driving standards is needed in this country and that could include first aid refreshers.
Also needs to include basic emergency procedures. eg dont open bonnet fully on a burning car, getting unhurt pedestrians off the carriageway and behind the barriers etc.
one crash i turned up to a car rolled several times up an embankment next to a motorway and the survivors ALL sat directly below the car which was unstable and liable to move down the slope!! to you and i that is plain stupidity, but as i was saying in the crash thread, people just dont seem to have the same common sense these days and dont think when in shock because theyve not been taught to!
oh and i think things like compulsory carrying of a high viz, triangle, torch, extinguisher, first aid kit etc should be in law for all vehicles
Originally Posted by
RSTAaron
With the amount of tossers out there you're safest bet is to just dial 999, if anything were to go wrong when you tried to help you could be in a heap of shit. Sad but it's the way things are.
not true. You will find on any first aid course they talk about this in detail and that noone in the UK has been successfully sued for doing basic first aid.
To do nothing in serious cases WILL lead to death. Doing something even if its a bit outdated will in most cases help.
In order for a claim of negligence to succeed a casualty would have to show that the rescuer owed him a duty of care which he breached, thereby causing him to suffer foreseeable harm.
In the United Kingdom, there is generally no legal obligation on an individual to assist a person in need of resuscitation provided he was not the cause of the casualty requiring treatment. In other words, there is generally no legal liability for a mere omission to act.