169: Jonathan took the wheel
What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.
Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how you would react in an emergency situation? |
| 0:05.0 | The first time I remember being put to the test with something like this is when I was 18 years old. I was just |
| 0:14.8 | driving by myself on a sort of rural road here in Florida one morning and as I |
| 0:21.1 | drove down this road I could see something odd up in the distance. |
| 0:26.0 | It was a car, off the road, and it was upside down. Probably most of us have approached accident scenes like this. |
| 0:36.0 | You'll see one or two cars that have obviously crashed into each other. |
| 0:40.0 | And you see fire trucks and police cars probably an ambulance or two to |
| 0:45.6 | take care of the injured people. But as I approached this upside down car there was |
| 0:52.0 | none of that no emergency vehicles no one walking around just |
| 0:56.8 | no activity at all so as I pulled over and got out of my car I kind of assumed that this must have just happened. |
| 1:06.3 | And 18 year old me was thinking, I'm probably going to go over to this car and find dead people inside, or people that might still |
| 1:16.3 | be alive but they're badly injured. |
| 1:19.6 | And this was before cell phone so I couldn't just call it in. I walked over to the car and got down on my |
| 1:26.7 | hands and knees and looked inside and I was happy to find that there was no one in that |
| 1:32.4 | car. |
| 1:34.3 | Whoever was driving had apparently already left the scene. |
| 1:38.1 | And a few minutes later, a state trooper rolled up. |
| 1:41.2 | He told me that someone else had called it in about an hour or so |
| 1:44.0 | earlier, so he was there to check it out and make a report. There were a lot of |
| 1:49.9 | people who saw that car and just kept driving. And I get that. Seeing or |
| 1:55.1 | dealing with a potentially traumatic situation is not for everyone. |
| 2:00.0 | Honestly, I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with it either. |
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