Thread: Do you stop to Help..Or Not

I do if I'm in the LH lane. It's a bit hard at 110km/h when, in traffic, one is in the RH lane of a 3-lane motorway.

But a 5 hour wait is appalling! What happened to RAC service? When my car stopped, I called the NRMA and they picked up the car and had us both home quick smart

How far from town was she? I can see that you are a lot further out in the sticks than I am.

I usually stop. Unfortunately, with almost everyone having cell phones these days, most drivers tend to ignore stranded motorists, assuming they will manage to call for assistance themselves.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I do if I'm in the LH lane. It's a bit hard at 110km/h when, in traffic, one is in the RH lane of a 3-lane motorway.

But a 5 hour wait is appalling! What happened to RAC service? When my car stopped, I called the NRMA and they picked up the car and had us both home quick smart

How far from town was she? I can see that you are a lot further out in the sticks than I am.

The story doesn't say but I assume it was remote area, when we broke down we were 80ks from the nearest roadhouse and there wasn't enough traffic to worry about holding anyone up or causing a crash.
The funny thing was 2 years later we got a flat tyre on the gibb river road and 3 cars stopped straight away, guess thats the difference with the 4x4 community.
Cheers Ean

I assess each situation individually but my golden rule is that if I have the kids on board and there's an adult male thats broken down then I dont stop. If its a female or a family then thats a different story.

If its a Landrover broken down then I will stop because lets face it we all know what it feels like to have our heads under the bonnet at the worst possible moment and I honestly believe Landrover drivers to be more trustworthy.

It depends on the location and circumstances, but generally stop, particularly as I live in an area where there is no phone coverage. I will not stop if I am in a real hurry or the location is not safe in the circumstances - remembering a recent case with multiple fatalities where a truck hit a car which was out of fuel plus the one that had stopped to help, with multiple fatalities.

Most recent cases I can think of was where I stopped for a couple south of Norseman who had no tyre changing gear (and a flat) - managed to change their wheel for them, and stopped for a Discovery with a smoking engine bay on the way to Cooma last year (it was a tow job). Other occasions included the farm ute on the way to town - they had just found their newly repaired spare was as flat as their back tyre.

John

assuming Im on the right side of the devider I at least slow down so that hand signals can be used to work out if they need me to stop or not.

The 4x4s in the puddle of empty beer cans and vehicles that show obvious signs of being potentially dangerous to stop for I dont stop for.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

and stopped for a Discovery with a smoking engine bay on the way to Cooma last year (it was a tow job).

I stopped for one on the way back. I was towing the caravan so had plenty of water on board.

It was no good. The Prof's Disco had blown ahead gasket. (I'm not sure what he did but I think he was involved with the awards ceremony).

Last year when we were away we stopped to help a couple with 2 flats and a busted compressor, they had been there around (IIRC) about 18 hours, admittedly on the road out to Finke there isn't a lot of traffic but there (apparently) had been some.



Martyn