Calififornia ruling against Good Samaritans

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That particular article may have some bias - as the author acknowledges in the last paragraph - his own mother being left to die without extrication after a MVC.

A different interpretation is that the intoxicated defendant "freaked out" and she yanked the victim from a vehicle which witnesses state showed no evidence of being likely to explode or burn.  She then dropped the victim immediately next to the vehicle, which seemed inconsistent with any perceived risk of fire/explosion.

The question I think is what a "reasonable person" would do - and it seems the standard in California is now that an average adult should know not to pull a MVA victim from a vehicle without a scene threat and when EMS is likely to arrive quickly.  This is not wholly unreasonable in my opinion.

A more level article is found at the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-good-samaritan19-2008dec19,0,6547898.story

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From: Michael Stein M.D. [mailto:mgstein at bezeqint.net] 
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Yep,
The stupid legal system of the US of A.
Dad

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 Interesting article...check it out!!




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