[eye30]

The dramatic moment bystanders pulled a motorcyclist out from under a burning car has been captured on film.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/skyworldnews-14898227/crowd

[asathorny]

Looked like he was brown bread to me ?????

[eye30]

Showed the clip on the 6pm BBC news

[Dazzler]

Been quite heavily featured over here as well.. (apparently the Biker recovering well - just a few broken bones) 

[Surferdude]

I've watched this a few times now. It seems to me the first thing to do would have been to grab the bike's wheel (not on fire) and pull it away from the car. Most of the flame seems to be coming from the bike. I'm guessing it was his fuel tank which split.

Also read somewhere that police told the bystanders to stay away until "official" help arrived.
Fortunately they ignored that advice.

[eye30]

Also read somewhere that police told the bystanders to stay away until "official" help arrived.
Fortunately they ignored that advice.

Not unusual for the Police to give that advice these days.

Here in UK when a lad fell in a frozen lake and the 2 Police refused to wade in after him as they said Health and Safety rules.

The lad died due to the delay in getting him out.

Whether he would have lived   -- who knows but at least he might have had a chance...

[asathorny]

I think those two police employees were in fact support officers...   

I guess each one of us would only know how brave we are at the point of looking down the barrel...  with that in mind I am mindfull not to be too critical.  However once the journo's get the story lash it up a bit and do some rabble rousing, well, not difficult to see how things can be spun whichever way ya wanna spin them.   

[eye30]

I think those two police employees were in fact support officers...   

I think you are right.


Wasn't it in your neck of the woods this happened...

[asathorny]

I think those two police employees were in fact support officers...   

I think you are right.


Wasn't it in your neck of the woods this happened...

Now your testing my memory, and you know my memory is failing, but, yes I think Salford sorta rings a bell ??????    I do stand to be corrected tho.   

[eye30]

I think those two police employees were in fact support officers...   

I think you are right.


Wasn't it in your neck of the woods this happened...

Now your testing my memory, and you know my memory is failing, but, yes I think Salford sorta rings a bell ??????    I do stand to be corrected tho.   

Here is the story from 2007!:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2512401.ece


Here is another story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365272/Emergency-services-left-man-floating-face-lake-half-hour-health-safety-reasons.html

[Dazzler]

Pretty sad really..