One of the things that has always been stressed in the many, MANY hours of casualty response and first aid training I have had to sit in over the course of my career is that you need to evaluate the scene and ensure you are safe to respond, before you just create another victim.
Sadly, it seems one lady in Kennewick might not have gotten that advice.
Kennewick woman who stopped to help motorist dies in collision
So yeah...very sad, and in fact, different than I had heard it on the radio on the way home. Sounds like she had already stopped to help, and was trying to pull a u-turn back out into traffic when she got hit.
It still doesn't change the basic message...aware, aware, aware.
Those are the deaths that get to me. Blind compassion is as bad as no compassion, but still better... and worse. I will certainly send a prayer for her. Even if it was terrible, the real intent... something about no greater... and to lay down one's life for another.
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