22/12/2018
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Picture this:
You're driving down the motorway and your car suddenly starts shaking. You immediately pull over and your car shuts off.
You call for a recovery truck.
The recovery truck arrives and starts loading your vehicle. During this, traffic keeps flying by you at speeds up to if not over 70-80Mph. There's only inches between you and the speeding traffic.
All of a sudden a car slams into the back of your car and the truck. You didn't have enough time to move out of the way. You are pinned between the speeding car and your vehicle. The recovery operator is trapped under your vehicle. A passerby stops to help and calls 999.
Now you wait.
You're bleeding, your seriously hurt, you hear from the person who stopped to help that the recovery truck operator is not responding. Fear and anxiety steps in.
The police, firemen and paramedics get there. Suddenly you feel like you're going to pass out. You awake in the hospital to find out you have several broken bones, a concussion and possibly worse. You also hear that the recovery operator didn't make it. The driver of the speeding car escaped with a few bruises and cuts. You start to get angry.
If only they had slowed down, moved over and gave the recovery operator enough room to work safely.
Now the recovery operator has lost his life, you have several months of medical recovery ahead of you and the family of the recovery operator has the rest of their lives without their loved one. Again, if only the other cars driver had slowed down and moved over.
Think about this story the next time you are traveling down the road and you see an emergency vehicle or recovery truck on the side of the road. It only takes a few seconds out of your time to slow down and move over.
They are people just like you. With families, loved ones, just trying to do their job and come home at the end of their day. Be a responsible, careful, considerate driver!
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