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Q: What do you do when you witness a traffic accident?

Last week, I saw a guy (not sure where he was from) cycling straight into a motorbike which was coming around the corner at one of the big university campuses in Beijing.

 

My first response was 'oh fuck what is the emergency number', but then as I was taking my phone out of my pocket another foreigner came up to me and said that we had to ask the guy whether he wanted to be taken to hospital/have the emergency services contacted.

 

Is that how it works here? I mean, that goes against my initial response/morals, but what about when someone is knocked out? Is this to do with money, or with insurance or police or what? Didn't get a chance to ask the foreigner what he meant as it turned out that he man was okay, as his friend (who had been cycling in front of him, it turned out) came up to us and helped him up, we established he wasn't bleeding too much, and his friend took him to hospital in a cab.

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1. Stop the accident - e.g. if there is dramatic bleeding or a fire to deal with or traffic passing

2. Assess the injured - what kind of injuries has the victim(Drunk suffered. ABC, Airways, Breathing & Circulation

3. Call for help - that'd be an ambulance, fire services, someone grown up ! 

4. Provide first aid - if you don't know this, go learn, you want people around you to be able to help you if it was the case

 

 

Asking the injured if he/she needs to go to the hospital is like asking me if I need to go home and sleep if I am passed out drunk in a gutter. Of course I'd say no. Mind you own effing life. But then again, my judgment in a situation like that might be impaired. 

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I have never seen anyone seriously injured so im not sure what I would do. But probably nothing.  I feel no remorse for anyone hit by a car as I am 99% sure they walked in traffic or did something else dumb. If they didnt do it on this particular occasion, I know they did it 30 seconds before.  They had it coming. Hopefully they take a lesson from it.

 

Best accident I saw was a guy on a motorized cart useing it as a shitty taxi was running a red light when i guy on a motorbike , who happened to also be running a red light made a left hand turn right in front of the cart and happened to get clipped 

 

They are both farmer garbage, but in this case , if you had to choose, the moto dude was in the wrong.  but.... TIC  and he had fallen and gotten a scrape so you know.. money!!!

 

The guy in the cart ( with 4 customers in the back) decided he was going to book it.   the moto guy chased him down,  jumped on the cart tried to grab the handlebars and the driver of the cart bit his hands, it was amazing.  All of this was in front of one of those mobile police stations on the corner, so they have an audience of cops just watching and doing nothing.  

 

The cart eventually got away. 

 

As they where both garbage, driving illegally with unregistered vehicles as well as the useless cops. Im sure nothing came of it cause police work!

Robk:

For some reason, I read this and I hear Benny Hill music playing while visualizing it. Such a joke lol. 

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Vomit on myself
It was that bad.

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  I tear my shirt open as I run down the nearest alley and at miracle speeds change into Waiguoman! At which point I take a seat on the nearest curb and laugh my arse off (unless it's a particularly tragic, gruesome scene involving a lot of blood and guts and screaming, and then I crack open a beer and take pictures).

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Just saw one a couple days ago, but he deserved it! I want to explain first. I live and work in a small complex, this side of the city is full of young couples, babies, toddlers and old men. So kids running around and elders walking slowly are alway coming and going. For about 20 minutes I was listening to this guy, he was speeding his motorcycle, but the noise was still quite far. When coming back to the school walking, I heard him speeding inside the complex (with cars driving slowly, you know, the classic street with two lanes divided). Maybe he drove like 400 or 500 mts, of course he didn't know what was he doing, he didn't saw a taxi and crashed!, I just heard the brake, crossed the street waiting for the worst. But he had nothing!, I got there first, look at the mess, checked if nobody else was injured (my students, their parents and grandparents are living here too, so I know most of them).

 

He stopped on time and just hit the taxi, nobody injured, the motorcycle was nothing but a bunch of broken metal and he stood up and that's all

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I call an ambulance.

JK I take photos with my phone to post them on WeChat.

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Last week I saw a Porsche Cayenne driver that  tried to suddenly cut across 3 lanes of traffic to turn off the street he was on. He obviously didn't look before he swerved because he turned right into the car driving next to him and got his car scraped up pretty good.

 

What did I do? The same as everyone else watching it.. I gloated a little bit and smirked at the idiot in the expensive car who couldn't drive properly.     

 

 

I did see a serious crash and there is no gloating then, just me feeling awful.There was a motorcycle rider who had been knocked off his bike and was beyond help. He was quite obviously dead. Other people seemed to have called the cops so I stayed out of the way.

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I've seen the aftermath of accidents, usually involving scooters, lots of people standing and watching, usually doing nothing. What can I do. Someone will have called it in.

 I've stopped to check a drunk girl that totaled her scooter, her friends came, I helped a girl up that wiped out on her scooter and gave her advice,,, never touch front brake on slippery wet sidewalk or you fall.

Why would you act any differently for Chinese or home accident  ??  I think it's better to help, if a Chinese person helps, no one will really notice, but if a foreigner helps they will. I've been told many times that I am kind, no one says that at home.

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It's smarter to keep walking as if you saw nothing. You could not and should not help because you could be their bait for blame or claim.

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Many foreigners, without a doubt in my mind, and myself included, will have a first reaction to stop and help victims of accidents in China or abroad. Now, tha being said, you must stop for a second and wonder why bystanders and even local Police will just stand by looking and do nothing. Ohhhh...., compensation !!!!!!!!!!!!
In China, all foreigners are look upon as millionaires. To the new arrivals it may sound as what I am writing is a bit cold blooded (and I will tend to agree that it is), but after you have been here a while, and become aware of many things going on, and even had to pay compensation when all you did was render help to an injured person involved in an accident with someone else than you, pretty fast you do learn NOT TO GET INVOLVED no matter how repulsive this thought strikes you.
Out on the street, when I see an accident, a fight, a female abused, or whatever, after many years in China I just do as everyone else around me, just keep on going, and maybe say a mental prayer for the well being of those involved.

ironman510:

You can't hear me but I am clapping. HappyExPat is right on the money.

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