I have been in several, and have even been in a serious rollover wreck as a baby and got a dislocated hip. I don't remember any of it.

Anyway, I was on my way to visit family in Michigan and we had to catch a plane in Nashville, and just gotten on the road to get to the highway. A guy was coming out of a parking lot and another guy was coming from the side, and he clipped the front bumper of the guy coming out of the parking lot. There was heavy damage to the front on both cars, but nobody was hurt. They both looked like older men, and they were btrh driving by themselves at the time. We got out to ask if they were ok and asked if there was anything we could do. He said he would be fine for now, and said thank you. we got back in the car and got back on our way.

If you witness the accident, and if it doesn't put you or anyone else in danger, it is the best thing to help or ask if they need help, especially if someone appears to be injured or hurt.

By witness I assume means that you are first on the scene. In that case absolutely, which is not only the responsible thing to do, it is also a legal requirement in many places.

If the situation is already under some control, I wouldn't want to be adding to the crowd and confusion unnecessarily.

This is a situation when help is necessary. Personally, I would help, but I haven't been in those situations when it happened right in front of me. By the time I get to something like that, there's bunch of police and ambulance cars all over the place.

Absolutely. I have even had to testify in court.

I've stopped many times.

if there was anything i could do to help i would do it without a second thought. i could never walk away from someone in need.

Sure. . .I've helped. . .and I have been helped myself. . .can't thank that guy enough. . .

Absolutely. It may not be "your duty" to help, but I don't see how any able-bodied person could walk away from something like this without at least stopping to see if there is anything they can do. If you don't have any medical experience to help directly (Good Samaritan laws do protect people in this case against liability), calling for ambulance/police help on your cell would be helpful, and providing your account of how things happened is still helpful.

Depends how bad it is and whether I witnessed it AS it happened. If it's bad but emergency response is already there, than they don't need extra people getting in the way of helping those involved unless you witnessed it as it happen.

If response hasn't gotten there yet, than legally you HAVE to stop, whether you witnessed it or not.

ESpecially if there's nobody else around to help.Make sure someone dials 911 as soon as possible if it's serious.

Absolutely. And if you can't help then you should call for help. At the risk of making this too personal, if an off-duty Massachusetts state trooper hadn't stoppped to help my family back in 1992 I would probably would not be here writing this now. In fact, I know I wouldn't.

I would stop and help. I am a former paramedic and I would feel horrible if I drove by an accident and did not see what I could do to assist someone in need.

Last week I was heading to the mall when a tan Buick merges into my left lane, without signaling and without any regard to the fact the my car was there. In fact I had to break to avoid an accident. I noticed that he had veteran plates and was an old dude, so rather than hit the horn and rattle him I decided to keep on going. About 3 seconds later I hear this incredibly loud noise...the guy had cut across into the opposing lane of traffic and was nailed by a black Hyundai that now looked like an accordian. I pulled over and the young lady was a nervous wreck and the old gentleman in the Buick was bleeding and leaning over on his wife. Of course, I stayed there to provide a witness statement to the police. Unfortunately, the older gentleman died, and things got very sticky with the insurance companies as well as the courts. I fielded several calls, visited the police department and the court, and spend a great deal of time dealing with this tragic situation. I think though that if you have a solid viewpoint of a situation like this, certainly the right thing to do is share your version regardless of your personal inconvenience.