If you were to encounter an accident. . .

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This evening Paul and I were on our way home from dropping Angie off at the detention center (only two more weeks to go). Well, we were on a main road that runs through the center of the main university here in town and traffic came to a crawl. I assumed that there had been an accident. What I didn't assume is what I saw. There was a man or boy laying in the middle of the street. Being that I have training in first aid/first responder and also CPR training. I pulled my car up onto the nearest side walk, turned off the engine and told Paul to stay put in the car (he didn't need to see all of that). I ran up to the accident site and tried to get out into the road to check the man for airway, breathing and cirulation. Well, the man that was signaling traffic (a civilian, not a police officer, they weren't there yet) told me to not even try to get out of there. Shortly thereafter, the fire truck and ambulances arrived, so I knew that the man was in good hands. I know that he had a head injury as that was where the blood was coming from. I could also tell that he had been a pedestrian when he was hit. If you were to encounter an accident like this, would you have stopped, or would you have just rubbernecked and gone on about your business? Do you think that it is right when people just go on when something like this happens? Seeing all of the cars that just drove past (and almost hit the cars that were stopped to block off the man) just sickened me.