Saw a crash today :(

[talkToTheHat]

True, that's got to be the typo of the week.
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[Johanna]

I've been a first aider for many years and one common question that comes up in courses that have new first aiders is what happens if someone takes them to court for failing to carry out first aid correctly. The instructors always say nobody will every get in legal trouble as long as they tried their best. (Obviously if they do something that's obviously neglectful then there will be consequences). But the thing is that, even if they are a complete idiot or panic and forget everything, no judge in his right mind would find someone guilty if they *tried their best*. There are tabloid stories about people being taken to court, but those cases are always dismissed.
Book a first aid course tomorrow. It's not only strangers or people you are riding with on the road. What happens when your child burns himself? What happens when your mother has a stroke? Your wife/ husband starts choking and turning blue? Would you forgive yourself for not doing a quick 3-day course when you're helpless?

[talkToTheHat]

There are subsidised Biker Down courses that are very rider oriented, i did one a few years ago. It's very much just the bare bones of saving lives at a road triffic incident, rather than 300 ways to bandage a poorly thumb as I would describe the long and detailed course I did back in 2000ish...

I recall having an RTA scene mangement "case study" set of questions on my motorcycle theory back in 2012, I remeber it asking some first aid questions. I remember being very peeved that when asked a question the was along the lines of "after handing over to emergency services, you continue your ride. it begins to rain, do you...." I could not choose to "find nearest cafe, probably mcdonalds and cry into a cup of coffee until the rain stops" or at least "go home, sort mental state out and post on BCF"...

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I caught something that might have been a pigeon (there's about 2 frames of it on my camera) square on the headlights of the bandit. There were bits in my oil cooler, on my luggage and all up one side of my off-white Ventilator jacket. Rear camera just shows a brief spray. I cleaned my helmet and rode home. Forgot about it and stopped at a coop. Someone screamed. I recon they're still telling the tale of the day one of them satans angles types waltzed into the local corner shop after shivvin someone up

I hosed the bike down and fed my jacket to the washing machine. recently treated leather appeared to have shed most of the splatter and needed a baby wipe. Forgot to clean my luggage. It stank after a week.[/i]
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