I got called out to an accident yesterday , just after chrissy lunch .
A roll-over - nobody hurt , just leaving to go back to th station .
A report of another 'mva' , 25k down th road . I was 1st emerg
service there - actually The only emerg service there .
A bush firey & tow-truck driver , a car Full of 'tourists' had run off
th road , down an embankment . Nobody hurt , nobody pssed .
Both times had to block road while retreiving vehicles . I had said
earlier on fb , to everyone driving in 'my area' 'drive safely' as I
might be th 1st emerg serv to th accident AND that might take over
an hour . Well th 1st bloke waited 1hr 15min , I was there 1st , th
coppers 5min behind me , th towie 10min later , 2 ambo's turned
up just as we were all leaving , th towie got off th mt , so th bloke
could put all his gear in son's car . Got a call from dispatch ---
another one , 25k down th road (sth-back up th bldy mt)
Got home at 9pm . Please DRIVE carefully & enjoy your holiday
trip . I don't think anybody would like to have , a firey & a towie
turn up to an accident & start sorting things out , th others ,
waited for me to give a sit-rep , usually th towie has to take
th driver to th cop-shop for breathtest . AND I ain't a roadside
neurosurgeon or sin bosun . after all that .
I hope Santa was kind to you all .
Loves youse
Happy Chrissie
Richo
animalcarer said
07:25 AM Dec 26, 2011
Good on you for being there. Its quite upsetting coming across that. Lucky people to have you there at that moment.
jules47 said
08:10 AM Dec 26, 2011
Sad but true - someone has to be there for these people, they are lucky it was you. Keep up the good work.
ozi2 said
09:07 AM Dec 26, 2011
Thanks for being there mate, I hope the lucky survivors appreciated your help and assistance. They all could so easily have been statistics...and spoilt YOUR Christmas further.
Cheers,
ozi2
Delta18 said
10:20 AM Dec 26, 2011
Zoomtopz wrote:
I got called out to an accident yesterday , just after chrissy lunch .
usually th towie has to take
th driver to th cop-shop for breathtest .
Richo
As a towie in a past life I know where you are coming from Richo, we are often considered 'vultures' etc but people are very happy to see us when they are broken down in the heat or they are stuck in traffic on a freeway and we arrive to clean up the mess.
I find it strange though that any towie is allowed to take a driver to the police station for a breath test following a crash. There is no 'continuity' if that happens and there is no way any DUI charge would hold up in court as the driver would say he was sober at the time of the crash but had a swig of whisky or such on the way and no-one could prove otherwise.
Thankfully I no longer have to deal with the carnage on the road which is always worse at this time of year.
Merry Christmas & happy New Year
Neil
jimbo said
07:57 PM Dec 26, 2011
Today on my way too Greens Lake. I in My Coaster ws 100 klm From Heathcote via Coonabarabin Drivers wer flying Passed me at 120 Plus narrow road...I was Godsmacked.....Meant to tell norma Michael who are here at this moment Had a Happy Hour for 1/2 an hour It was great
milo said
02:49 PM Dec 27, 2011
coming back from sydney to nowra christmas night along the old hume, id site on 110ks as per the speed limit, every one went flying past me, including p platers...
I think there should be more visiable police cars around, its just so easy to have an accedent only takes a second to loose concentration...
drive safe every one
Happywanderer said
02:53 PM Dec 27, 2011
The cops are out in force today here in Echuca. They are pulling everyone over into a service road in what they call a random breath testing. So everyone going to Chemist Warehouse or the camping shop, which is where I was going, got breath tested. Hopefully it will put a few idiots off the road. I'm still driving by the way.
Zoomtopz said
05:44 PM Dec 27, 2011
One of th reasons I enjoy being a firefighter .
Yesterday , still recovering from 'chrissy' & those accidents .
Got a call from 'th Captain' , get down here to -- -- place as
quick as you can , their house is on fire . Got in th cruiser , low
flying , as I got to th turn off , I could see their was not much smoke
from th house , but th fire-station was open , I wheeled up , got th
big truck going & raced down to th house . Got th hoses ready , as
Capt came out of house with mt extinguisher , got my 2 ext's &
joined him in kitchen to finish putting out fire .
The relief on 'our friends' face was thanks enough . Was she grateful
to see 'that big red truck' turn up .
Again please Drive Carefully & watch th Fires . I just read about th
Culburra incident , th road & fire don't care who you are , you play
with it , you pay . It just moves on .
Richo.
milo said
06:15 PM Dec 27, 2011
i feel so sad for the celebraty chef who lost his family in a fire on the weekend.. so tragic..
Gerty Dancer said
06:56 PM Dec 27, 2011
Geez Richo, you could write a book! And still nobody would take notice, they all seem to have the "it wont happen to me" syndrome. Well we are taking notice, took notice of the P plater who passed us today doing over 110, and the police car who came shortly afterwards. Passed them both later, an accident prevented for now. Lots and lots of traffic out there today on the Monaro highway, you'd think it was a racetrack.
Zoomtopz said
08:19 PM Dec 27, 2011
Gerty ,
I have sat in a couple of wrecks & held people as they'passed' ,
as I mentioned earlier , not being a roadside neurosurgeon or a
'sin bosun' , but they did not die alone . The 1st one was th worst ,
as th bloke had hit me head-on , he was over double yellow lines , on
my side of th road , as much as I swerved off th road to try & miss him .
The truck he was overtaking was doing 105klicks , this bloke looked a
red blur to me , I was only half off th road when he hit me . His final
words to me "Sorry mate , I did not see you", he passed 3 weeks later .
Now you may know why I tell people to drive Carefully - It not only
affects immediate family - a footnote -
Towards th end of my 1st marriage , my ex kept telling me , That she
wished I had been blown up in Vietnam & that I had kileed when th e
Melbourne cut the Evans in half AND that it should have been Me
killed in That accident - it took it's toll on me over time . So please
I got called out to an accident yesterday , just after chrissy lunch .
A roll-over - nobody hurt , just leaving to go back to th station .
A report of another 'mva' , 25k down th road . I was 1st emerg
service there - actually The only emerg service there .
A bush firey & tow-truck driver , a car Full of 'tourists' had run off
th road , down an embankment . Nobody hurt , nobody pssed .
Both times had to block road while retreiving vehicles . I had said
earlier on fb , to everyone driving in 'my area' 'drive safely' as I
might be th 1st emerg serv to th accident AND that might take over
an hour . Well th 1st bloke waited 1hr 15min , I was there 1st , th
coppers 5min behind me , th towie 10min later , 2 ambo's turned
up just as we were all leaving , th towie got off th mt , so th bloke
could put all his gear in son's car . Got a call from dispatch ---
another one , 25k down th road (sth-back up th bldy mt)
Got home at 9pm . Please DRIVE carefully & enjoy your holiday
trip . I don't think anybody would like to have , a firey & a towie
turn up to an accident & start sorting things out , th others ,
waited for me to give a sit-rep , usually th towie has to take
th driver to th cop-shop for breathtest . AND I ain't a roadside
neurosurgeon or sin bosun . after all that .
I hope Santa was kind to you all .
Loves youse
Happy Chrissie
Richo
Thanks for being there mate, I hope the lucky survivors appreciated your help and assistance. They all could so easily have been statistics...and spoilt YOUR Christmas further.
Cheers,
ozi2
As a towie in a past life I know where you are coming from Richo, we are often considered 'vultures' etc but people are very happy to see us when they are broken down in the heat or they are stuck in traffic on a freeway and we arrive to clean up the mess.
I find it strange though that any towie is allowed to take a driver to the police station for a breath test following a crash. There is no 'continuity' if that happens and there is no way any DUI charge would hold up in court as the driver would say he was sober at the time of the crash but had a swig of whisky or such on the way and no-one could prove otherwise.
Thankfully I no longer have to deal with the carnage on the road which is always worse at this time of year.
Merry Christmas & happy New Year
Neil
every one went flying past me, including p platers...
I think there should be more visiable police cars around, its just so easy to have an accedent
only takes a second to loose concentration...
drive safe every one
Hopefully it will put a few idiots off the road. I'm still driving by the way.
One of th reasons I enjoy being a firefighter .
Yesterday , still recovering from 'chrissy' & those accidents .
Got a call from 'th Captain' , get down here to -- -- place as
quick as you can , their house is on fire . Got in th cruiser , low
flying , as I got to th turn off , I could see their was not much smoke
from th house , but th fire-station was open , I wheeled up , got th
big truck going & raced down to th house . Got th hoses ready , as
Capt came out of house with mt extinguisher , got my 2 ext's &
joined him in kitchen to finish putting out fire .
The relief on 'our friends' face was thanks enough . Was she grateful
to see 'that big red truck' turn up .
Again please Drive Carefully & watch th Fires . I just read about th
Culburra incident , th road & fire don't care who you are , you play
with it , you pay . It just moves on .
Richo.
so tragic..
Well we are taking notice, took notice of the P plater who passed us today doing over 110, and the police car who came shortly afterwards. Passed them both later, an accident prevented for now. Lots and lots of traffic out there today on the Monaro highway, you'd think it was a racetrack.
Gerty ,
I have sat in a couple of wrecks & held people as they'passed' ,
as I mentioned earlier , not being a roadside neurosurgeon or a
'sin bosun' , but they did not die alone . The 1st one was th worst ,
as th bloke had hit me head-on , he was over double yellow lines , on
my side of th road , as much as I swerved off th road to try & miss him .
The truck he was overtaking was doing 105klicks , this bloke looked a
red blur to me , I was only half off th road when he hit me . His final
words to me "Sorry mate , I did not see you", he passed 3 weeks later .
Now you may know why I tell people to drive Carefully - It not only
affects immediate family - a footnote -
Towards th end of my 1st marriage , my ex kept telling me , That she
wished I had been blown up in Vietnam & that I had kileed when th e
Melbourne cut the Evans in half AND that it should have been Me
killed in That accident - it took it's toll on me over time . So please
Drive carefully.
Richo.