Chapter 165: The Price
Traffic accidents can happen anytime and anywhere.
These things may seem to happen for no reason, but the probability of them being caused by a mechanical failure of the vehicle or a road problem is very small. The real cause of an accident is often related to the occupants, especially the driver.
Fatigue driving, drunk driving, drug driving, driving with mobile phones, chatting with passengers, lack of concentration, speeding, negligence, and operation errors are the problems of the drivers themselves.
Others, such as the high beams of the opposing lane, pedestrians crossing the road and not having time to brake or avoid, are external causes.
Although it is called an external cause, others are also responsible, but in the end, the responsibility lies with the driver himself. When the high beams are shining on the opposite side, then slow down and pull over. When a pedestrian crosses the road and does not have time to brake, it means that the vehicle is speeding too fast or not paying attention.
As a driver with a B1 level driver's license, Wang Ge spent a lot of effort when he obtained this license, and after he really became an ambulance driver, he also learned a lot in the team, and of course experienced more advanced ambulance driver training.
A driver is often not only burdened with his own life, there may be other passengers in the car, the accident will affect other normal vehicles, causing a secondary accident, even if the driver is the only one who has an accident in the accident, then the driver also has family and friends, and others will still cry sadly.
Accidents are fiercer than tigers, and dangerous driving harms others and oneself. The kings know this very well.
Therefore, the faster the ambulance of the king pigeon, the more careful he is, in the process of driving, not only to consider the safety of his ambulance's route and location, but also to judge the actions of other vehicles on the road in advance, keep a safe distance, while ensuring that he does not have an accident, to ensure that when others have an accident, his side can dodge in time, so as to avoid the disaster without being affected.
So the job of a driver, especially an ambulance driver, is definitely not as simple as it seems, and there are many things to worry about during driving. The patient's condition, route, vehicle condition, road condition, other vehicle condition, etc.
They are also tired and miserable, and the car driving down in one shift is not something that anyone can hold up casually.
When seeing the scene of the traffic accident, the king pigeon often tightens his already tense spirit again, always reminding himself that he must be careful, otherwise he will be next.
He still has unfinished things on his back, and this life cannot be ruined in his own hands.
Less than 0:30 in the morning, the ambulance driven by the king pigeon galloped on the road to the eastern suburbs, the vehicles in the direction of the eastern and western suburbs of Xiangsha City, at this point in time, there were relatively few, the road traffic lights were few, the road was relatively narrow, the middle was divided by a double yellow line, there was no guardrail, and occasionally there were opposite vehicles passing by.
The ambulance honked its siren, flashing blue police lights, it was very dazzling in the dark night, and there was a car on the opposite side that saw the ambulance from a distance, and it would slow down in advance and pull over to give way, which was still more quality.
The speed of the ambulance has reached 90 kilometers per hour, and the water on the rainy road yesterday has been completely evaporated, although the weather is wet, but the king pigeon feels that the braking system is more sensitive, so he thinks that his car can be a little faster.
After all, it will take at least three or four minutes to arrive at the scene, and if it can be a minute faster, it will be a minute faster.
As soon as the accelerator pedal stepped deeply, Wang Ge felt a white light in front of his eyes, and he couldn't see anything clearly on the road ahead!
"the harmony, Beam Dog!" he cursed, grabbed the steering wheel, and quickly removed his right foot from the accelerator pedal and stepped directly on the brake.
When driving at night, in order to widen the field of view when there is no car in front, you should indeed turn on the high beams, but when there is a car on the opposite side, you should switch the high beams to low beams, otherwise the opposite driver will not be able to open his eyes.
But in reality, not to mention this kind of suburban road in the city, even within the city limits, in the city center, where the lights are bright, there will be private cars at night with high beams, shaking the vehicles on the opposite lane dare not drive, it is really worrying about the quality, Wang Ge even suspects that these people have not been dazzled by the high beams, and the driver's license is not bought!
There is a blank in front of you, and the chance of an accident will naturally increase.
The dangers of high beams are not limited to when the lights are on.
After all, the pupils of both eyes are adjusted according to the external light. When the light is strong, the pupils will be narrowed, and when the light is weak, the pupils will become larger, increasing the amount of light coming in, so that people can see things as clearly as possible at night.
However, just like the auto-iris of the camera in a phone, it takes time to adjust the brightness of the focus. It also takes time to automatically adjust the pupil size of both eyes.
When people are indoors, the light is insufficient, the pupils are relatively large, and when you suddenly enter the sunny outdoors, the pupils can't be adjusted, and you will feel that the sun is dazzling, and you can't open your eyes, which is very uncomfortable. This situation is more similar to driving in the dark, the eyes need more light, so the pupils become larger, at this time suddenly in front of the eyes of a high beam, or what xenon headlights, the normal reaction of the average person will definitely be a blank in front of the eyes, just like a shooting game The enemy suddenly throws a flashbang, and nothing can be seen!
At night, when people are in a brightly lit place, with sufficient light and relatively small pupils, they suddenly go out to the road without street lights, or enter the basement, and their first reaction must be that the surroundings are dark, they can't see anything, they dare not move, and it takes a few seconds for their pupils to become larger, so that they can gradually see the surrounding things clearly. This situation is more similar to the completion of the car, the opposite vehicle with high beams has come behind you, and your eyes due to the stimulation of the high beams just now, the pupils quickly become smaller, and the front is pitch black, the eyes are not enough light, and you can't see anything!
Back and forth, as long as the opposite high beam flashes, the driver must be blind for a few seconds. It's better to have a guardrail in the middle of the road, just like the two roads where the king pigeon is now, there are two lanes in total, and there is no place to cover it, it's a nightmare!
But just a few seconds can often lead to tragedy and cause fatal accidents.
In the judgment of a traffic accident, if the vehicle that was flashed was involved in an accident due to the high beam of the other party, then the car with the high beam turned on also has a certain responsibility.
The city is not allowed to open the high beam, the car to switch the lights, the traffic regulations are clearly written, the traffic police see the fine, but there are still a small number of people, think that checking or pulsating the switch of the light switch is a waste of their time and physical strength, never remember this major event.
Wang Ge encountered this kind of harmful spirit and had no choice, so he could only follow the correct operating procedures, hold the steering wheel, brake and slow down immediately, pull over when his vision recovered slightly, and then flash his high beams twice to remind the other party to pay attention to the switching of lights.
But the car ignored it, and still completed the meeting at a very fast speed, and swished past. The king pigeon even felt that the car was faster than he had just driven.
"This brother, just such a way, sooner or later something will happen!" Wang Ge muttered, after all, not every driver can do a regular operation when he encounters a high beam blindness.
After a full five or six seconds, the king pigeon regained his sight before he dared to start again, and as soon as he stopped, more than half a minute had passed. But until now, there are still two white spots left in the visual image of the king pigeon, and it is estimated that it will take a few minutes to completely recover.
"Is there something wrong?" Wu Gang looked at Wang Ge and rubbed his eyes and asked with concern.
Wang Ge shook his head, rubbing his eyes to speed up the blood circulation in the eyes, so that the two white spots disappeared as soon as possible, and don't delay his return drive.
"It's here!" The vehicle has just raised its speed, and the position of the vehicle on the navigation is about to coincide with the location of the alarm.
As soon as Wang Ge finished saying this, he heard a piercing braking sound behind him, followed by a loud bang, which startled him.
The sound of brakes and collisions was loud, and it was obvious that Wu Gang and Feng Ji in the carriage also heard the sound behind them, and hurriedly looked out from the glass window of the back door of the carriage.
Under the dim street lamp, the white Volkswagen sedan that had just passed by the ambulance with its high beams on its high beams kept rolling in the non-motorized lane next to the road, rolling for more than a dozen turns, smashing the roadside guardrail, sliding for more than ten meters, and stopping when it touched the bus stop kiosk on the side of the road.
Fortunately, there are no pedestrians on the roadside at this time, and it is relatively remote here, and there are no night food stalls, otherwise the people around will have to suffer together. The owners of many stores on the side of the road have not closed for rest, and they have poked their heads out to see what is happening, some people took out their mobile phones to call the police, and some rushed directly to the side of the vehicle to save people.
A black sedan, which had been following the ambulance cautiously, had its front sunken in and stopped in the middle of the road.
"Yes, if you hit it, you will hit it!" Wang Ge also saw the tragic situation of the car accident from the rearview mirror, and it seems that the people in the car are either dead or injured, and the murder is more auspicious.
But they can't care about this idle matter, their task is less than a hundred meters ahead of the car accident scene, now the only thing Wang Ge can do is to grab the intercom and report to the city medical emergency command and dispatch center.
"Command and dispatch center, please note that this is the No. 0110 of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Yaxiang, Xiang AGZ689, and witnessed an unusually serious car accident on the way to Mawangdui Ceramic Market, which is about 200 meters west of Mawangdui Ceramic Market on Yuanda 1st Road. The casualties are unknown. ”
"Roger, please continue your mission, we will send other vehicles for emergency rescue. The other party's answer was crisp and neat, the nearest hospital with an emergency center in the general department was only the Second Affiliated Hospital of Yaxiang, Wang Ge guessed in his heart who would go to the scene to get out of the car, and stopped on the side of the road - he had arrived at his destination.
A few meters ahead, a semi-trailer truck drove a double flash, parked on the side of the road, an electric bicycle on the right fell to the ground, a traffic police officer is maintaining order at this intersection, and another traffic police officer is comforting a little girl who looks like she is only a teenager.
The little girl sat on the side of the road, staring at the front right wheel of the big truck without saying a word.
The truck crashed next to it as if it was calling the freight company, holding a lit cigarette in his hand, and his hands were shaking.
Half of the body of the van had already turned the intersection and appeared to be turning right. As soon as the king pigeon saw the situation on the scene, he knew what was going on.
The battery car has been driving on the right side of the truck, the truck wants to turn right, it happens that the battery car is located in the blind spot of the truck, and I didn't see the position of the battery car at all, until the collision occurred, the driver of the electric car was rolled into the bottom of the car, and the truck driver felt that he had hit something, as if he had run over again, and then he came back to his senses and quickly stopped.
There are a lot of things like this, but this is really the first time I've seen a king pigeon.
"On the way here, is there something wrong in the west? The movement is quite big, you can hear it here, it is estimated that it is a few hundred meters away. The traffic policeman who maintained order saw Wang Ge coming and hurriedly asked.
Although there was no other scene of the accident here, the sound of brakes and crashes still pierced through.
"Two cars, going together, it's quite serious. There is a rollover. The king pigeon nodded in response. "I called an ambulance. ”
"I'm sorry for you here, I'll go to the scene of the accident first. The traffic policeman said to the medical staff and another traffic policeman at the scene, stepped on his police motorcycle, honked the siren and rushed to the west.
"Good guy, the police are out in seconds. Wang Ge looked at the back of the traffic policeman and sighed.
The person caught under the van was a middle-aged woman, who was supposed to be the girl's mother. The wheels of the truck were two rows, and they looked more than half a person tall, and there were pieces of the battery car scattered around them, and next to the huge tires was a circle of blood, mixed with other things, and it looked sticky.
As soon as the king pigeon leaned over, he smelled a very strong smell of blood, the upper body of the middle-aged woman was pressed under the wheels, the lower body was facing outward, the shoes were kicked to the ground, the whole person was motionless, his hands were pressed on the ground, and he seemed to want to struggle to get up at the moment of being crushed.
"I can't see the upper body, can a person pull it out?" Wu Gang felt bad in his heart, this person's chest and head were pressed by the double row of wheels, and the truck was still full of goods, basically not saved.
If a person is pulled out from under the car, he is 100% unrecognizable, and the entire upper half of his body is flattened.
"I tried, but I didn't move. The traffic police came over and said. "If you hadn't rushed with the big cars, this wouldn't have happened. ”
"Doctor, look...... Can people be saved? Don't die. She could still move her hands and feet when I got out of the car!" said the truck crash as she said as she looked at the little girl who was still sitting on the curb of the road.
In fact, this young truck driver still has good intentions, knowing that if he hits and kills someone, it will ruin a family, and what a psychological shadow this little girl will have!
There is a saying in the industry of big truck drivers that it is better to be killed than disabled.
It means that after a serious traffic accident and hitting someone, it is much better to be killed directly than to be disabled or seriously injured.
After all, death is a one-time compensation, and if you are disabled or seriously injured, the amount of treatment costs and compensation is really not capped.
Wu Gang smiled bitterly and shook his head, he touched the stomach of the middle-aged woman, the outside temperature was relatively low in the early morning, and her body was already a little cold. At the very least, this proves that there is no blood circulation in the body, after all, the dead cannot maintain their body temperature on their own.
For the sake of insurance, Wu Gang leaned under the car again and checked again, but he had no way to detect the carotid artery and pupils of the middle-aged woman, so he could only take out the stethoscope to listen to whether the middle-aged woman's digestive system still had blood flow, and then held her wrist to carefully judge whether there was still a wrist pulse.
"The head is flattened, and the chest is sunken. Severe fractures of the skull, cervical spine, spine, sternum, severe trauma to brain tissue, and the heart and lung organs are estimated to be crushed, any of which is fatal. It is estimated that at the moment when the person was pressed under the wheels, it was gone, and there was no rescue value. Hand and foot activity ...... Just because of nervous twitches or unconscious reflexes, contact the funeral home. Wu Gang also glanced at the girl on the side of the road and felt a little pity.
Wang Ge also sighed, no wonder he didn't see the Grim Reaper here, it turned out that the Grim Reaper had already appeared, and he had already taken his soul away.
"That'...... Let's get people out?" said the traffic policeman.
"In front of the child?" Wu Gang gave him a blank look.
The traffic police is also an auxiliary policeman, young and ignorant, so he was stunned and quickly shut up.
"Contact the family, protect this little girl first, originally we were going to get people out and then hand them over to the funeral home. Wu Gang said.
When Wang Ge heard this, his heart tightened, and he immediately thought of the extremely disgusting car accident scene described by Sun Chengde. I haven't seen it with my own eyes for so long, and I haven't dragged a corpse yet, and today is the first time. Wang Ge's mood is a little complicated, although he knows that this kind of thing will have to be done sooner or later, but he is still more resistant in his heart.
If you throw up later, as an old employee, it will be a real shame.
"It's just...... There was a car accident in the west just now, and it took a long time for the ambulance to come, so we had to go over to the scene first. I'm bothering you here!" Wu Gang finally finished speaking.
The king pigeon finally breathed a sigh of relief, although it has to be experienced, but it can be delayed for a day. To his surprise, Feng Ji next to him actually sighed, as if his mentality was similar to his own.
This Feng Ji has not been in the emergency department for a long time, and he has not been out of the car a few times, and he has always been a nurse in the outpatient department before, even if he sees a patient with serious trauma, he has basically been treated once, and he has never seen this kind of bloody scene.
As soon as he entered the scene, he saw a mixture of white, yellow, and red on the ground, sticky, and bloody, Feng Ji felt a little sick to his stomach. A big man didn't speak, retching a few times next to him, as if he was about to vomit as soon as he opened his mouth.
Even if you are a nurse, you will vomit when you see this kind of scene for the first time. If it's a joke, let him try it himself.
It's a shame that people didn't drag it out!
Wu Gang conducted a thorough examination of the little girl on the side of the road, and found that she did not even have a skin injury, but her expression was dull, and she was frightened by the sudden fear and the great grief of losing her loved ones. This ambulance can't afford to waste its precious rescue qualifications just because of a girl who was unscathed.
"Let's go, it's not a waste of time today. Xiao Wang, it looks like you're going to report back to the command center. Wu Gang waved his hand, and the three of them hurriedly got back into the car.