As an ex-pat now residing in sunny Florida (Land of attorneys), I can tell you sometime you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t which certainly makes life interesting! Case in point, several months ago, we may or may not have respond to a Motor vehicle Collision (Accident is not used as it implies someone was at fault) 2 vehicles, one rear ended another at an ATS. The driver in the stationary car ok, but complaining of a sore neck, but after talking with the Paramedic who deemed him to be competent, took a signed refusal. The idiot, (sorry driver) of the second car that caused the accident (sorry, I meant ‘collision’, and he is officially a ‘victim’ until the courts determine he was at fault, as he is fighting the ‘moving’ violation ticket the deputy gave him, so he may not have caused it after all?!?!) There were no skid marks either to show that he had even attempted to stop, let alone slow down. Is screaming like a baby, as he may or may not have been wearing his seatbelt and may or may not have been talking on his cell phone at the time of the alleged collision. His older model car didn’t have airbags and a nice head shape can be seen indented in the windshield along with the cell phone that is embedded in the glass. His seatbelt hanging nicely as they do when not fastened correctly. All attempts to enquire as to his injuries where met with ‘my neck, my neck’, which we countered by a c-collar and an extraction by removing the roof of the vehicle. (I like to do this to give the medic some “thinking” time to accurately asses his true injuries). We get him out, put him on a back board as we are about to load him into the nice shiny ambulance, starts to demand we let him go as he wants to refuse treatment (now that the deputy has given him his ticket and left to direct traffic) So we call through on the radio to the county medical director as we class him as a high risk refusal, meaning his should go against his wishes. The Doctor agrees and we now call the deputy over again to “assist” us. Eventually he ‘agrees’ to go but not before promising to “get even” with us. Fast forward several months, we all got subpoenaed as a local well know law firm that is suing is for unlawful detainment, coercion of a patient against his wishes, and the full cost of replacing his beat up old car as we had to remove the roof. Not to mention a whole bunch of other legal B/S. This is from one of the law firms that tells TV viewers that they are working on the weekends to make sure the client gets every penny of insurance money his is entitled. Of Course the law firm will get 33% of the total awarded. Now if “Someone” was paying attention to the road conditions, not talking on his cell phone, and had actually seen the big red traffic signal, the stationary car ahead of him with their brake lights lit up like Christmas (Holiday) time, and had been wearing his seatbelts, we would still be sitting in big comfy chairs at the firehouse.