What would you do?
Mar. 8th, 2008 12:41 amSo, a question.
I was trucking home this evening from spending a lovely evening chatting with some old friends. It was about midnight when I was coming up 495 N.
It has been raining hard out, and I notice headlights pointing at me in the wrong direction. Then I notice car # two, about 20' off the road *up* in a ditch. I have no idea how he got there.
My first instinct was to pull over and see if everyone was all right BUT:
a) it was midnight
b) it was pouring out
c) I'm a single female
d) I'm going 65 on the highway. By the time i'd be able to pull over, I'd be beyond the next exit, and I'm not walking back down the highway in the dark
e) I could see people milling about.
So, I called 911. I calmly explained who I was, and where the nature of the accident was. They patch my through to the State Police, to whom I repeat myself. The Trooper states (somewhat gruffly, it was midnight) that someone was enroute. I thank him and say goodnight.
Is there any better way to handle this? I mean, everyone and their cousin has a bloody cell phone, but there's always a few who don't. Should I have called? Should I have call someone other than 911?
Just made me think.
- k.
I was trucking home this evening from spending a lovely evening chatting with some old friends. It was about midnight when I was coming up 495 N.
It has been raining hard out, and I notice headlights pointing at me in the wrong direction. Then I notice car # two, about 20' off the road *up* in a ditch. I have no idea how he got there.
My first instinct was to pull over and see if everyone was all right BUT:
a) it was midnight
b) it was pouring out
c) I'm a single female
d) I'm going 65 on the highway. By the time i'd be able to pull over, I'd be beyond the next exit, and I'm not walking back down the highway in the dark
e) I could see people milling about.
So, I called 911. I calmly explained who I was, and where the nature of the accident was. They patch my through to the State Police, to whom I repeat myself. The Trooper states (somewhat gruffly, it was midnight) that someone was enroute. I thank him and say goodnight.
Is there any better way to handle this? I mean, everyone and their cousin has a bloody cell phone, but there's always a few who don't. Should I have called? Should I have call someone other than 911?
Just made me think.
- k.