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AIBU?

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To think you leave outside, outside

53 replies

RoderickRules · 24/09/2017 19:13

Car crash over the road today, DP leaps up and looks out of the window, shouts 'crash', and stood at the window looking out.

There were at least 7/8 people on the scene, on mobile phones, neighbours (from opposite side of the street where crash was) out in the street, attending to situation.

DP hurries out, and generally gets in the middle of what's happening, moving driver from car and into recovery position/takes over.
Ends up liasing with ambulance/police etc.

AIBU to think it's none of our business, the situation was being attended to, and we should leave outside, outside.

Felt like extreme rubbernecking to me, but I am prepared to be told IABU.

OP posts:
Frazzled2207 · 24/09/2017 21:57

I think perfectly normal to want to help especially if you're a trained first aider. If same happened outside our house I would definitely go and see if I could help though it's unlikely I would be able to if several were there already.

Pulling the driver out the car before ambulance seems wrong but none of us properly understand the scenario.

Hope the poor guy was ok.

clumsyduck · 24/09/2017 22:02

If he's a trained first aider I'm guessing he felt that he should go help especially as you say the other people there were just sort of stood there , if cpr was needed for example your dh may have been the only one confident in doing it so no don't think he was rubber necking at all

GwenStaceyRocks · 25/09/2017 11:40

As I said in my previous post, I think your DH did the right thing.
Have you worked out why you were so annoyed by what your DH did? For example, did your DH getting involved impact on your plans for the day? Or does he regularly leave you to play the hero? It's just that the more I read this thread, the more I think it's about your relationship and not about how to respond to an accident.

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