[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: First Date (WAS What's Love Got To Do With It?)

[Shaun Hately]

On 4 Oct 2003 at 0:07, dradamsapple wrote:

> Uh, Shaun,
> 
> Need I ask, What the heck were you doing covered in blood?
> Uh, wait, maybe that's a bit of your personal life that I really 
> don't need to know . . .

No, not personal.

Car crash - basically we were both at boarding schools so dates were fairly 
unusual - outside of organised school functions - but you could get permission if 
they trusted you.

We got permission to see a movie but when we got to the cinema, we couldn't get 
tickets - got trains back to school, but got on the wrong line - we got off at a 
station where we could get a tram to near our schools but we had time to kill, so 
decided to take a walk along a creek near the train station. While we had 
permission to be out of school to see the movie - that didn't mean we could 
wander around - basically we should have gone back to school but nobody was 
going to know.

Except that there was a major elevated road running alongside the creek, and a 
car came off the bridge and crashed into the bushes about 100 metres ahead of 
us. I'd had first aid training at school so I ran towards the car, while I sent my date 
off to find a phone.

Got to the car - three people a couple of years older than me were unconscious in 
the wreckage. And none of them seemed to have injuries I knew how to deal with - 
basic first aid training. I could give CPR, but I established they were all still 
breathing, I could deal with burns but there was no fire. Bleeding was something I 
could deal with, and there was a lot of blood around, so I was looking around 
trying to work out where it was coming from - no serious spurting wounds - most of 
it it turned out was from a girls head wound - it was bleeding an awful lot but 
actually turned out it wasn't that serious. I tried putting pressure on it - all the 
basics.

I've never been so relieved in my life when after maybe five minutes a couple of 
police came running down the creek path. Of course, then I had to convince them 
that I wasn't injured (they thought I'd been in the car, and I was pretty bloody at 
this stage). I managed to convince them that I wasn't hurt, but unfortunately I 
utterly failed to convince them they didn't need to call my school. (-8

The three people in the car recovered - they had minor fractures, and a lot of 
scrapes and scratches - worst of it was concussion, thankfully. Luckily they'd all 
been wearing seatbelts, and the car had come down through shrubs and things 
which slowed it - it wasn't like they flew off the bridge - it was basically going down 
a really steep hill.


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