Not for the Sqeamish (Seriously)

[Keith Oates]

I set out on my commute this morning and had gone about 3Km when I came across an accident in which a 10 ton (approx) covered truck had been in collision in with a stationary vehicle. As I passed I could see the body of the driver, which had passed through the smashed windscreen, hanging with the head and upper body upside down in front of the cab and the legs trapped inside. He was very much dead. Can't get it out of my mind at the moment!!

 

[zimzum42]

i often think that if they showed images like this in the reporting of 'accidents' that people might be a little more careful behind the wheel.

Certainly in the UK, any images of a crash just show a bit of a mangled car and someone on a stretcher, no blood or gore....

 

[snapper_37]

i often think that if they showed images like this in the reporting of 'accidents' that people might be a little more careful behind the wheel.

Certainly in the UK, any images of a crash just show a bit of a mangled car and someone on a stretcher, no blood or gore....

There's websites dedicated to the stuff... if people really want to see it

 

[zimzum42]

Yes, but most people don't, they watch Arnie get shot a hundred times but still fight on, rather than seeing someone having their arm shattered with a single bullet

They see Brad Pitt roll his car and jump out and rush off to save the heroine, and so on and so on.

Fair enough, films are fantasy, but we could do with some realism in the news, not the sanitized crap we get.

I watched the early evening news in Tanzania once, a lovely story about two kids who had been flayed so their skins could be sent to witchdoctors in Nigeria. You saw everything, the tools, the flayed bodies, the bodyless skins. Seeing something like that might stop the relativist nutters in their tracks. Equally, seeing the real results of some crashes might make the barryboys think twice

 

[snapper_37]

I agree with you Zim. Was just saying that videos/photographs depicting gruesome images are widely available, should people choose to view them. I didn't believe the result of a head-on collision (or any other accident) should be shown on national TV whilst the country is digging into egg and chips.

 

[zimzum42]

i don't mean to get all P+L here, but what's the point unless you show it at tea-time?

 

[ChrisKH]

i don't mean to get all P+L here, but what's the point unless you show it at tea-time?

Can someone tell me what P + L means in this context? Thick and old that I am it means Profit & Loss where I come from.

 

[wlc1]

If I may interject here. None of the above comments are helping Keith with his current problem.

Keith, I work as a paramedic and sadly have seen the sights you talk about and worse.

What will happen over a few days is that your brain will make you forget the finite details of what you saw until you just remember is was a body. That you can deal with.

You have to be pragmatic.

You didn't know the dead person.

You would never have known them.

They probably didn't know much about death.

They we obviously dead ( as you say) so there was extremely limited or no suffering.

Whilst you saw what you did - you were in no way involved. Keep it that way.

Don't be worried if when you close your eyes you either see or remember what you saw. It will pass in a few days.

Any problems then speak to friends about it. You'll be fine in less than a week

 

[zimzum42]

Can someone tell me what P + L means in this context? Thick and old that I am it means Profit & Loss where I come from.

P+L = Politics and Life!

And Keith - yeah, it's horrible seeing that kind of thing, have seen some horriffic minibus crashes in Africa - but time heals all!

 

[ChrisKH]

I can still recall murder scene photos I saw 16 years ago. I don't need help or anything but these images can stay in your head.


Sorry Keith this probably isn't helping.

 

[Maz]

You really see some sights out on your commutes, don't you Keith!!

 

[zimzum42]

it's a bit like the shock you get at the obligatory nude scene in any helen mirren film

 

[CopperBrompton]

It's not pleasant seeing things liked that. I've arrived at the scene of a couple of fatal accidents, and each time it took about a week for the vividness of the sight to fade.

Ben

 

[Keith Oates]

Thanks for the advice and insight in what's going on, I'm sure that will also help me to clear it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Keith Oates]

You really see some sights out on your commutes, don't you Keith!!

The last 6 months have shown me a few Maz. This is a beautiful but harsh country at times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!