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We all do, that's how insurance works. From what the article claims has happened in similar cases the good samaritan will likely pay most come renewal time. AIUI the emergency services 'self insure' through a bond but either way if they paid the bill (they'll actually be invoicing for their attendance i believe) they're funded by taxpayersBut who pays ?
To be fair, people cannot always be sure of what is wrong with them.
Since our tv's are awash with reality rescue and 'heroes' saving people. People are accustomed to that sort of reaction. Who wants to take a chance on becoming a cripple?
That said if someone has got out themselves of a wreck and wonders around to sit in someone else's car, then they're hardly likely to be that injured so severely they cant move again. With many 'real' injuries people would not move in the first place because they could not.
And what surprises is that people are in a much more natural and comfortable position when seated, yet once they are 'cut out' they're then made to lie flat with legs straight just to be put on a stretcher. Putting far greater stress and movement on a possibly damages spine than there was.
Well I got out of a car after an accident walked around and sat on a wall feeling odd.
By that night I was in a spinal unit with no sensation from the chest down weeks later I started on Physio to get walking again.
A friend fell off his boat in dry dock climbed back on went to sleep many pain killers.
Woke up feeling rough called for help climbed down from boat,6 yes 6 fractures of his spine.
Years later another accident for me, same thing, got out walked about, over the following months and years, too many severe problems too list, years later I am still a long long way from right.
Oh and despite it not being my fault in any way a massive financial loss.
You are made to lie down to put the spine in its safest position in case of damage, sitting up is potentially very dangerous.