Ive got limited synthampy for the driver here, you dont crash into two cars and a house by carefully driving at 20mph on that icy road. I cant stand driving in this weather simply because of other people and their inability to read the road conditions and then as soon as they come up behind someone thats doing less than summer driving speeds in the snow they then tailgate and push that person to go faster.
Chas:
bazza123:
Hmmm that sounds quite a difficult job
Did you ever have to start the recovery with deceased people still in the cars where it was a prolonged extraction? That must be hard.
Very rarely but it can happen. Sometimes using the recovery equipment is the only way to do it.
I took a newbie out on a fatal where a car was upside down & perfectly plugged in a dry ditch, the car had caught fire in the engine bay but the lack of oxygen meant the interior was relatively untouched. They’d used a camera to get inside & knew there were 2 bodies. The fire brigade estimated 3-4hrs to dig out the side of the ditch to extract them.
We were asked to volunteer & lift the car just enough to clear the ditch, they’d then do the necessary while we wandered off somewhere. My mate attached the chains to each wheel & it was an easy job to lift it clear of the ditch.
What we saw was horrific, not even Hollywood could recreate it. That’s an image I know I can never get out of my mind.
Back at the yard, the newbie gathered his things & left. Never said a word just packed up & went.
I found the job a lot easier after I stopped reading the news, knowing who they were somehow made it a little more personal but you never get over the little unexpected things, like the ballet dancers shoe or the mobile phones ringing.
How do you switch off when you get home? When your wife/partner or whoever asks how your day went, does it affect your mood at home?
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People wouldn’t walk in a street and start a fight with 50 people… thinking they are invincible
Why do it in a car ?
Quite sad really, couple minutes of bad judgement for eternity…
voodoo1:
Quite sad really, couple minutes of bad judgement for eternity…
I tend to look at it as proof that Darwins 5th law is true.
We have to weed out the weaklings & death by RTC is as good a way as any