in march there was a horific traffic accident right outside my house, my husband and I were the one of the first on the scene, there was a car in the ditch on the other side of the road and one in frount of us, and was on fire, the driver was stuck by the legs and his wife was in the back the baby had been thrown into the front, we got the woman out and put her straight into the recovery position, and someone else got the baby, we tried to fight the fire and suceeded enough to free the driver, with 40 seconds before the car went up completely, my problem is that although we saved the driver, he is in a wheelchair now ( don't know if we caused it by yanking him out) , the woman was left to long before we had time to give mouth to mouth and died, the scene was what can only be descibe as a war zone, has anyone else had to make this life and death choice and how did you deal with the feelings of guilt at not doing more to save a life, this is the only sadness in my life.
2007-09-05
03:17:18
·
13 answers
·
asked by
fruitcake
7
in
Psychology