Work comes first ...
NEIL CLARKSON
A motorist first to the scene of a motor accident near Little River yesterday morning clearly had more pressing engagements. “Sorry, but Fin late for work,” he told the woman, who was trapped in her car which lay overturned in a ditch about 10km from the township. He then drove off, leaving the woman unable to move in the damaged car. A second passing motorist checked on her well-being before getting help.
The woman, who suffered minor shoulder and arm Injuries, was then freed. Inspector John Banks, of the Christchurch police, said it was disappointing when someone did not offer help in such circumstances. “It’s like the parable of the good Samaritan, really. “From a humanitarian point of view one would think that anyone who is in trouble like that should be assisted in some way, but it is not something you can force on people.”
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Press, 2 August 1989, Page 1
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