On my way home from work this evening (about 6.30-ish, not too busy and most traffic has left the estate by this point). Dropping off one dual carriageway onto another via a raised roundabout and on the slip road and there's a Ford Puma facing the wrong way up the road in the outside lane. The visible side is stoved in, and the passenger side rear suspension is about 90 degrees to the direction it should have been facing and the drivers side rear quarter is still impacted into the barrier where it's come to rest. Driver is out of their car but the crash can't have happened more than a minute or so before I got there.

The inside lane is still completely clear and whilst no specific hard shoulder there is a tarmaced area with solid lined chevrons (to stop you running into the bit where the hard shoulder runs out).

Every car coming past is just slowing slightly and weaving past it.

I pull over onto the chevron'd area to check that the driver was OK and whether they needed any help (stuck around for about 2 minutes to make sure they were ok and could call for a tow truck) before asking if they wanted me to hang around and then taking off when they said no.

Strictly speaking since it was:
a. block chevron'd area you shouldn't use it unless it's an emergency (which I suppose you could classify that as)
b. Part of a dual carriageway and hence shouldn't be parked on

I guess I shouldn't have stopped

Did I do the right thing?

Please discuss/argue

 

Course you did.
It's up to us all to help people out when they could be in trouble.

 

Well done ....

 

Good on you Ben, most people wouldn't stop at all.

 

I even stopped to help an old biddy change her wheel on Arran this year ...

(Where's that smug looking smiley?)

 

I was expecting at least one comment about being irresponsible for stopping on a dual carriageway or a slagging off for crossing onto a chevron section.

Much more of this and I'm going to get all bashful

 

It was an emergency though. You had stopped to make sure a driver who'd just been involved in an accident was okay.

 

 

It was my good samaritan moment for the day.
Considering I'd had a sh*tty morning made me feel a whole lot better

 

What he fails to mention is that it was Ben that rammed it off the road in the first place, to take out his frustrations at not being promoted for 7 years

;)