This is kind of the opposite of what this site is looking for but I just wanted to mention this one, cuz well it was interesting and sometimes it's nice to let people know they've made a difference and that your grateful. I was in a roll-over awhile back on my way home for Christmas. Wind and black ice are not a good combo.
My vehicle rolled 4-5 times before coming to a stop and thanks to a seatbelt I had no severe injuries. The vehicle was totally crushed. I was bleeding and did need an ambulance and my cell phone was strewn in the ditch somewhere along with everything else I had. I took a piece of the dirty laundry I'd been hauling and tried to flag someone down but cars just kept on driving by. It was the middle of the day and at least a dozen of them saw me and kept driving! I couldn't believe it. Finally an old man stopped to see if I was ok. I was scared out of my mind, on the brink of shock, and freezing cold. He didn't know what to do, didn't have a phone, and had been on his way to take his wife to an important doctors appointment in a town a couple hours away, but he was the one that stopped to see if I was ok. I thought it was kind of ironic, that of all the people that passed me by, he was probably the one with the best reason for not stopping yet he did. A short while later a van full of National guard women (the medical unit actually) drove up. They'd seen me roll and had driven to the first exit and turned around to come back and help. An ambulance came and took me to the hospital, the guardswomen put all of my stuff that had been scattered in the ditch into one nice pile in my pickup, the nice older couple stopped by the hospital later to check on me, and I was released later that evening. I'd like to thank that couple for keeping me company while I was scared even though they had important things to do and didn't really even know how to help other than just be there, and thank the ND National Guardswomen that helped me that day.
From North Dakota
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