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Date Posted: Fri, 08/22/03 12:22pm
Author: Ylva
Subject: General question

Just got back from town to get some supplies. Driving through our village to get to the mainroad, I had to stop behind a bend, 'cause there was a girl lying on the road with her foot stuck in two bikes hooked up. She had just collided with a little boy, who got a slight shock and limped about aimlessly half crying in pain and leaving the girl on the road without any help at all. I turned the hazard warning lights on, got out of the car and left the door open on purpose to prevent other cars from passing from behind in the bend until I got the girl and the bikes off the road. The girl was ok, but she said her buddie hurt himself. When he heard us talking while separating and getting the bikes out of the way, he got himself together and limped up to us. He sat down on a stone and when I asked where it hurt he calmed down and pulled up his pantsleg; a scratchwound right on the kneecap. No big deal, but it hurts like 'you know what'. For whatever reason, he didn't want to go home when I asked him. The girl said he could come with her. So, everything went well in the end, but...

...one thing bothered me: while the girl was still lying on the road trying to get lose and the boy walking around so aimlessly I was afraid he'd caught an concussion (you get terribly dizzy), people kept driving! Cars came from both directions, not extremely fast as we were in the middle of a housing area, but anyway; they must have seen what had happened and was going on. The road is so narrow that outsiders sometimes ask if it's a one-way road; it is not. So the people drove up on the small sidewalk to get past. Nobody from the other direction stopped. That would have been so easy and kept the road blocked (i.e safe) for half a minute or so that I needed to help the one child get off the road and control of the other. Ok, "nothing" happened and there are worse things on earth, but a little later I got so angry with the other adults that came by because none of them stopped and kept the spot where the children had collided free from other vehicles. They insisted on getting past someone lying on the road; it's hard for me to accept, I can't accept it.

I don't doubt I did the right thing (and don't pat myself on the back for it; adults have responsibilities), but my quesiton is: do you think I'm asking too much of others when I feel it would have been apropriate to at least stop to keep other cars away?

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