A few times, mostly for traffic accidents but a couple of others
I can’t remember if I called or someone else, but an elderly woman drove straight across the crossroads of a main road. I left one car length of skid mark and hit her car.
‘Luckily’ I pushed her car forward and she also hit the car waiting on the other side of the junction, lucky because she ended up tipped up wedged in the air between our cars, otherwise may have flipped her over into the adjacent field
All services attended
She was cut out by the fire brigade, and I was told later that she was fine but shaken up
I broke ribs (crushed by my seatbelt locking me in place)
The police officer was almost less lucky - I had handed him my car folder for insurance etc, and he arrived at the back door of the ambulance to return it, just in time for me to point out the face at the back window as they were about to reverse out
One crash that I witnessed in front of me left a wheel and suspension flying off and landing just in front of me
While waiting I was stopping and directing traffic to turn around or wait. (It also turned out that a friend was on the opposite end doing the same)
In front of me were car parts spread across the road blocking access to the side road that I was about to rake, and behind me as I turned to leave a bus decided to attempt a multi point turn and blocked that way out getting trapped by roadside bushes and trees, eventually managing to turn by knocking down young trees
The worst was breaking into a friends flat to find her body.
With a paramedic car arriving first, promptly followed by an ambulance then police, the paramedic either took my word or looked enough to see that there was nothing to be done, so kept out at the doorway (preserving any evidence) until the ambulance arrived, then took me away to their car to deal with me for shock
This was on the exit ramp of an urban carriage way, and they had pulled up to the end of it facing the wrong direction (complete with blue flashing lights) just after we got in we were greeted by the screech of brakes & tyres as a car arrived directly in front of us, the paramedic remarked that “they weren’t looking where they’re going”
When the police came to my home for a formal statement they had all the call logs with time points - what seemed to take forever alone was a matter of minutes
A ‘fun’ final one is the body in the bush. (Happy ending) I was at a comicon as a trader with friends. As she pulled out of the exit she was sure that she saw something in the bush, so did a u turn driving back.
I hopped out (and was joined by another trader who had also seen from her van - dressed as Lara Croft Tomb Raider)
There was a body in the bush, laid back with his head tipped backwards.
He was very drunk and passed out, presumably heading to the nearby bus stop but sat down or fallen over.
For a while we had no reaction, unsure of breathing but did manage to get the occasional grunt, with me poking his ears, nose and slaps eventually we got some level of response and finally got him to sit up
We cancelled an ambulance but kept the need for the police - there remained the danger that he was unfit to stand and could fall into the road if not back into the bush
A motorcycle instructor / ex police stopped and agreed to stay until the police arrived
The guy had some mint collectible figures in a bag clutched on his chest - they were no longer mint and a little crushed
Whilst waiting with some signs of life I was trying to deal with him without letting him attempt to stand, and Lara Croft was stood obstructing the view to allow for some dignity of being stared at by traffic