While she helped, they honked: Pedestrian asks London drivers to show a bit more empathy
While she helped, they honked: Pedestrian asks London drivers to show a bit more empathy
London woman stopped to help man who'd collapsed at in the sidewalk at Richmond and Oxford
But what made her challenge particularly difficult was that the drivers trying to get through the intersection honked with impatience and anger, swerving around her and darting through the intersection as she tried to help the man.
"They were acting like I was a delinquent and I was just trying to help someone," she said. "Drivers will stop for Canada geese but you've got a man in distress and no one cares."
Paramedics arrived shortly after and took the man who'd been struggling to hospital. Litsas doesn't know what caused him to collapse or how he's doing now.
After the ordeal, she posted on the social media site Reddit about how some of the drivers chose to honk instead of help.
"I was frustrated, I was a bit shaken up just having the traffic whiz by you and it's just an unnerving position to be in," she said.
The purpose behind her post is to ask that drivers show some patience and empathy if a pedestrian appears to be struggling.
"Stop, put your hazards on," she said. "It's a car against a human being and I'm not going to win against a five-tonne vehicle."
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Another thing I noticed, is that drivers had zero patience when you are in a bike stopping traffic because you need to turn on an intersection, while other cars stop the transit in the same way a lot more and they just wait. If you don't want me to stop the transit using space, vote for the major that wants to build bike lanes.
Cars block public transit where you are? Where I am, public transit always gets the right of way.
Sorry, English isn't my first language. I didn't mean blocking transit, but traffic. But yeah, they block the transit too lmao.