Injured by hit and run - and left alone for 1 1/2 minute -

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- and they are saying we are so insensitive ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_re_us/ignored_hit_and_run;_ylt=ArXNPBZK6Dupls04CTCTqvKs0NUE First, a related experience I personally experienced. I was waiting at a light rail stop and an older woman came up to me and asked about the person lying in the alleyway in view of the stop. I had to go closer to see - I had thought it was just a pile of clothes, but no, there was an unconscious man there, with a bruise on one side of his forehead. There was no blood flowing, but he was unconscious, I was not sure if he was even breathing. She had a cellphone, we decided 911 (the US standard emergency phone number) should be called. I saw him move several times while we waited, so thankfully it wasn't as bad as I feared. We directed emergency personnel to the scene, and that was that. Back to the present. A hit and run driver (one of the vicious scums of the earth, in par to the child molesters, in my opinion) hits a pedestrian in Hartford Connecticut. There is a videotape of the incident taken from an intersection camera. It also shows the 1 1/2 minute after the incident of people walking around, doing nothing until the police shows up. Less than two minutes after the incident. And they are calling it a representation of the heartless civilization we have become ... I am imagining me at the scene at such an incident - I have some first aid training, but if this person was bleeding from a head wound, for 1 1/2 minutes I would not be sure what to do. I think I would be afraid to touch such an injury - would I make it worse if such and such happens? - one minute is not a lot of time to think. And there were 4 911 calls in the minute after the incident. And help was there shortly afterward. For myself, I would make sure someone called 911. Unless it was an injury I am not confident of helping with, I would offer my assistance. Divert traffic? Here, in the county of Sacramento, where drivers seem to think they have divine rights over pedestrians? I don't think so ... I am only human ...