chocolate_o_brian

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im typing this now after chilling out and letting the adrenaline rush subside.

had an eventful last 90 mins anyway.

story goes like this....

my fiancee starts work at 7.00am so i always pick up her mate on the way around 6.35-6.40 every morning. just round the corner from me is a road called queensway which is the main road (which joins kingsway) that goes from one side of scun.thorpe to the other.

so i get to a set of lights im supposed to turn left at to go down queensway to take another right (to pick her mate up). only as i take the left i see some guy lying on the floor wrything around and another guy stood over him in shock.

i started to pull over and block traffic coming.

"nat, ive gotta pull over, this guy looks really hurt" i said to her.
"but il be late for..." she tried to reply.
"nat seriously, hes really hurt" i replied before she had chance to finish.

so i jumped out and ran to see if i could help. another lady stopped (who i later found to be a nurse), and i asked if there was anything i could do. the guy stood over was in pieces.

"he just came from nowhere" he said.

i then noticed the mangled bike, and messed up n/s wing on his landrover. i looked at the guy on the floor and was nearly sick. his skull was wide open down to the brain and it was literally pissing blood everywhere. anywho instinctively (and ive never done any first aid courses) i took my jumper off and folded the big flap of skin/skull onto his head best i could and tried to apply as much pressure as possible.

note that all this happened withing about 10secs of getting to the scene, although it felt like a lifetime. i started talking to the guy as the woman looked to see if he was bleeding from anywhere else.

"whats your name fella" i asked him

"al" he replied, "i think my arms bust, its pointing to the sky the wrong way"

trying to keep him calm as he was obviously in a lot of pain i replied "ah, its a scratch, you ow me a beer when you get outa hospital"

by this time one more person out of maybe dozens that passed (yeah i know ) had stopped as was relaying what had happened to the operator via 999. admittedly it was maybe 3-4 mins until the fast responce car turned up followed in turn by an ambulance, but it again felt like a lifetime. i didnt know this other woman was a nurse, as she was very quiet, just asking "al" simple questions, while it felt to me as though i was keeping him alive.

i could feel the blood soaking through my jumper into my hand when i finally saw a green/yellow jacket approach. i explained what i had done re. having the guy in the recovery position (casualty - see tv does work ), and trying to stem the blood flow best i could.

they had a little look under the jumper which was now stuck to his head and decided the just bandage over it as it was far too risky. for the sake of this guys life, a £10 jumper means nothing to me, and i replied to throw it in the bin when this guys sorted.

so que a couple mins later, police have arrived, the guy is strapped to a stretcher and being put into the ambulance.

one of the ambulance people along with the lady that had stopped pulled me to the side of the ambulance as i was now quite shaken myself (assuming the adrenaline had subsided ).

they then said basically "thankyou, without your quick reactions this guy would have bled to death by now". it was then i realised what i had sort of done in playing a major part in saving someones life.

so after leaving details with the police and saying goodbye to "al", wishing him all the best etc while they were sorting the equipment out, i took my mrs to work. it was now about 7.10 and i had been round the scene of the accident 30 mins

dropped her off and eturned home, still a little shocked myself. admittedly there were a couple of tears when it really sunk in what i had done, considering i have no first aid experience. all i can say is i did what came naturally. imagine if i hadnt of stopped? the guy that hit him wasnt in the right state to do anything, and the nurse turned up just after me and didnt see the big bit of his head missing somehow

so ive calmed down now, had a cuppa, and thought id see what other people thought. im not after a medal or recognition etc, i did what i thought was right.

SiPie

Well done mate

Hope the guy is ok.......

You'd better take it pretty easy yourself for the rest of the day as it could hit you later on...

Kieran_Burns

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You did everything you could and should feel rightly proud of yourself mate.

Without sounding patronising: Very Well Done.

myblackwrx

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well done You did do the right thing as there is nothing worse than ignoring a person in distress if you can help.

I've been in a similar (but not as messy) scenario .

dual carriageway coming up to a roundabout (straight on and straight on /right only if you turn left you're in the sea ) bike in outside lane 9inside lane on roundabout) going straight on which he was allowed to do, woman driving on the outside lane of the roundabout suddenly decides she wants to go right ,doesn't signal clips the bike the rider hangs on his passenger surfs down the road for a few metres.

i stop,phone 999 and then organise some of the other people that stopped into warning drivers to slow down etc.I keep the rider calm (methinks he wanted to smash the drivers' face in not surprising really)

Plenty of people stop (no serious injuries just bumps and scrapes) but the fecking woman driver instead of seeing if they're alright just phones her husband to say she will be late

give my name and details to the police then find out later the reg doesn't match the car she's driving (unortunately didn't hear anything afterwards.

warrtster

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You did the right the thing mate, well done
Hopefully 'Al' will make a full recovery too.

vallumlj

well done mate call the hospital later and see how he is

chocolate_o_brian

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i doubt il hear anything. although as a gesture becasue this happened around 100 yards from my house, i took the guys mangled bike and stuck it in my back yard. the police have my details, and the guy is welcome to come collect when hes fit enough, although the bike it totalled.

think his wrist/arm was broke and his kneecap or shin was shattered. must have been some collision

Norman D. Landing

Good Job, must be nice to know that you did do the right thing instead of having to wonder whether you would.

chocolate_o_brian

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the words of thanks and encouragement from the ambulance lady really did help, because i couldnt have lived with the giult if id have put this guy in more pain than he was already in.

spider

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Hats off to you chap - and a huge "well done" for getting involved when so many others would just pass by.

Decent people know instinctively to help those who are in need like Al - you're definitely in that camp!

Here's hoping Al makes a full recovery.

Steve

scoob_babe

Good for you, you definitely did the right thing

JTaylor

Good work.

richiewong

Top work fella

FlightMan

Well done fella. You should be proud of yourself.

"Taylor"

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Well done Chocolate, your a brave man, good to see theres still actually people out there who will stop and help. Best of luck to "Al" hope he makes a full recovery.

SJ_Skyline

Andy, You did good mate!

chocolate_o_brian

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glad im off work sick now

can chill out for the rest of the day knowing i may have helped someone.

got plenty of drawing to get on with.

appreciate the comments guys/girls.

richiewong

Andy, I'm a nurse myself albeit a in mental health and I don't know if I would have stopped to help.

It's so easy to ignore others in distress in our 'busy lives' but you really have restored my faith in others

AER-SCOOBY

Well done. Hope Al makes a full recovery

jaytc2003

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The Zohan

Good job mate!

Brendan Hughes

Good stuff Andy. Phone the hospital in a day or two and let us know his progress please

Dracoro

Telling him it was just a scratch was a shrewd move IMO, stops him panicking.

Think the nurse prob did all she could, people forget they are NOT doctors so only so much they can do (and you were doing all that she could have done anyway).

Anyway, well done.

alloy

Andy you'll always be my hero

chocolate_o_brian

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get back on msn you

Klaatu

Remarkable moosh, brave. I know I could not do that, I chuck my biscuits when I see blood, and I used to be a blood donor in the UK.

chocolate_o_brian

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just a quick question to the sn folkes...

do you think i should leave his pushbike where it is in the back yard until someone collects it? its totally un-useable again, but i didnt/dont know if the police would want it for some reason?

Kieran_Burns

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Well he owns it and there may be some parts that are salvageable.....

chocolate_o_brian

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oh yeah i know that. what i meant was should i be in touch with the police about cliaming it for him, or just wait and see if someone contacts me.

im worried as my back yard has had 2 bikes stolen before from it previously thats all.

always the shed, but thats been broken into too.

Brendan Hughes

In that case, contact the police and say you don't have a safe place to store it. It would be a real fly in the ointment if it got nicked while in your care.