Urgent question

[Rave]

There's a nasty car/motorcycle accident just happened about 25 yards from our front door. Are we bad people if we rubberneck out of an upstairs window? All the police/ambulance/fire brigade are there, it looks very serious.

[manwithnoname]

I'd imagine is like been in a pub with the TV on, you don’t want to watch it but your eyes are drawn to it... all those flashing lights

I must admit I avoid looking at road accidents if I am driving, stops me crashing (not keen on blood either).

See if you can help, may be see if anyone wants a cup of tea.

[Rave]

Well I looked anyway. Saw what looked like a corpse being loaded into an ambulance. The car's been jacked up off the ground with an airbag. I was about to go to bed, got to be up at 3.30am tomorrow to drive a bus, looks like that's my 8 hours kip ruined. Not that that's what I'm most worried about, obviously.

I was out there literally about 15 minutes before it happened, tightening up the alternator belt on my mum's car. I've got a trolley jack here and I know first aid, can't help thinking 'what if....?' As it is, first I knew about it was when my wife busrt in saying there were flashing lights everywhere.

Edit: the road's completely blocked, and the police just got the incident tape out- thankfully they stopped just short of mum's car, which I need to get to work tomorrow. There are four busses queued up one way and two the other- no way to turn them round, looks like they're stuck for the duration.

[Agent]

Regardless of blame - poor biker (im guessing they are the worst off here).

Got my biking exam next friday and all i keep hearing is horror story's. Guess its that time of the year

[Rave]

Well, as far as I can tell the biker's dead- police knocked on our door to ask if we'd seen anything, and when I asked, they reckoned it 'wasn't looking good', hence the door to door questions. So never mind poor biker- he doesn't care any more- poor biker's friends and family, two and a half weeks before Christmas.

Our road is a 20mph limit, with speed humps all the way along; it's a nice suburban road full of 3-bed terraces. Still someone snuffed it 25 yards from my front door while I was sat at the dinner table enjoying some stilton and a glass of port. Be careful out there folks, because it really could happen to you.

Police are still out there with all their surveying equiptment etc., and the car has not been moved.

[Steven W]

Damn, sounds nasty. I think it's human nature to be inquisitive, you're not doing anything wrong.

[Rave]

Well, looks like I have an overactive imagination, he's not dead- my mate who works for the met looked it up and he 'just' has serious head injuries (described on the computer note as 'life changing', rather oddly). I guess that means brain damage.

[badass]

Originally Posted by Rave

Are we bad people if we rubberneck out of an upstairs window?

Its human nature. I avoid rubbernecking accidents when driving, but if its outside my house, I doubt I'd be able to avoid checking at least once or twice.
Fingers x'd the biker makes a full recovery.

[IBM]

Gotta agree with Badass. I despise rubberneckers on the road, but stuff happening in your immediate vicinity, you're going to be curious. You're obviously concerned for the people involved, it's not as though it's entertainment or a conversation topic for later....

[BlindMelon7]

Originally Posted by Rave

Are we bad people if we rubberneck out of an upstairs window?(.

Only if theres popcorn.