Member ignored my plight!

Read all the posts here and an awful thing to do to anybody but nobody has said "how do you know they where members" as non members can use sites as well. ? Also you state "Feeling faint, I walked around her car to get into the passenger seat, the next thing I knew she was waking me up, I had fainted and fallen again on the tarmac."  Fainted and fallen again so who helped the first time and why did you get up after the first fall or have I read this wrong.

It is a members only site I think but I don't consider that relevant really

I could be very wrong but this is how I’ve read the thread:

Catherine fell and broke her wrist. This injury didn’t prevent her from getting herself up off the ground.

She then felt faint, walked a short distance, then actually fainted.

I’ve fallen and broken my wrist myself, and, as with Catherine, managed to get back on my feet without help. I too, felt very groggy after the injury, but, thankfully didn’t faint.

It’s great that Catherine is making a good recovery, best wishes to her.

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I've attended several accident's over the years and you would be surprised how many folk a). don't want to get involved or b.)  don't know what to do (not even the basics). 

There is a also misapprehension that if you treat someone and something goes wrong you can be prosecuted which is the case in some countries

I guess there have been instances when best intentioned good Samaritans have actually contributed detrimentally in some situations. I do not believe that anyone could be prosecuted for trying to help or have been prosecuted in the past when this has happened. Like other countries, first aid and the use of defibrillators should be on the school curriculum, even in Primary Schools in my opinion.

On a side note. Castleton is a member only site but they could have been what some I believe call "off roader" non members who know nothing of the club. Also having driven safely round the unfortunate and parked correctly obstructing no one in the arrivals bay they saw the person up and on their feet once more being attended to by a friend an assumption may have been made.

You don't need a deal of competence to offer to make a phone call or to fetch help though. 

Your right Alan so go to point a.)

Oh, I have witnessed point a) a number of times. 

50 years ago cornering at around 50 on a motorbike, sudden deflation of front tyre and I bailed off aiming for the grass verge and away from the bike. Missed the grass and hit the road with the bag on my back finding its way under my rib cage complete with a large thermos  which certainly rook the wind out of my sails. Car comes along, drives round and carries on. If I had been able to breathe I would have thrown a rock.

15 years ago a lady in an electric wheelchair on a light controlled pedestrian crossing in Southport. Wheelchair died and people walked around. Unbelievable OP. Fortunately I knew how to disengage the drive motor and told her that help was here. I knew that we were about 50 yards from a mobility sales and she was able to wait there for hubby. 

6 years ago in Manchester this time a very disabled chap in an electric wheelchair. Brave guy. He was driving up to people and looking imploringly for help. Did they not see his eyes? People and couples ignored him and walked on. I walked over to him and he could not speak just an incoherent mumble but was making eye movements looking down to his right arm. He had a leather strap around him and I though that maybe the arm should have been resting in. I asked him if he wanted his arm placing in the strap and he was only able to give a slight nod. I placed his arm into the leather sling and he raise his thumb on his working hand and smiled. I suppose that when you mention it I have seen similar happenings Oneputt. 

A really sad story Catherine.  I hope you have recovered from your ordeal and are feeling much better.  Sorry you didn't get help from that member... 

David

Thanks again for the sympathy.  If they had just mentioned it to the wardens when they booked in that would have been some help for my friend, who is small, like me, and struggled to help me into her car.

i can understand people not wanting to offer first aid, but surely just to mention it to a Warden that some one at the entrance is having a problem?  Not much to ask.

We were Site Wardens ourselves for eleven years(finished at Threeways/Marazion in 2010) and the vast majority of people we met over those years were great people, members or not.  Very happy memories!

a week and a half until plaster off, can’t wait.