u are truly an angel

Ace said:

Don't beat yourself up over it. Woulda shoulda coulda...you did good boy! Seriously, you were probably the only one that actually cared about her and I'm sure it made an impact on her.

i'm glad you heard from her

You are so incredible.

There's nothing more that I could add, that hasn't already been said, so I'll just give you a giant hug instead.

I was not too far from home when a young woman ran out in front of a speeding car in front of me. Luckily, the driver was able to stop before hitting her. At that point, the woman just stood there in front of the car for what seemed like an eternity before stumbling, dazed, across the road. The car drove away, while the woman collapsed against a fence, sobbing.

No one stopped.

I pulled over to the side of the road and put my hazards on. I got out and went over to the young woman. I asked her if she was okay. She said, “I don’t want to be here anymore…I can’t take anymore…”. I asked her what had happened, but she said she didn’t want to talk about it. She continued to cry. I asked her if she had any family in the city and she said she was from Nova Scotia, but that her sister was in the city. After trying to comfort her for a while, I got out my cell phone and got a therapist’s number for her. I made her promise to call the doctor and her sister. She seemed to have calmed down a little. I drove her to a payphone and gave her a couple of quarters. I gave her my number and told her that I was expecting her to call me today, so that I would know she was alright.

In hindsight, I should have driven her to a hospital, but I did not think of that at the time. I am kicking myself for not doing that.

I heard from her last night! She sounded a lot better and she's made an appointment with the therapist!
[Edited 5/5/05 11:45am]

Not on the same level, but the same issue:

There was an old man with Parkinson's disease trying to cross the street by himself (I later learned he was AWOL from the nursing home, heh). He kept falling and falling and pickign himself up. The light turned green, and everyone just started driving or going around him. I just couldn't believe it!

I pulled my car over and helped him get across the street safely and into the grocery store. His knees were bloody, even though he had kneepads on.

That moment still haunts me, and I still think of what I should've/could've done.

There's a difference between someone with a terminal illness wanting to commit suicide to avoid suffering, and someone who has a bad week and breaks up with their significant other or something like that, and makes a hasty decision to end their life over something petty and temporary.

I saw a girl get whacked by a van a couple years ago. It's interesting you mentioned this girl tried to commit suicide this way, I didn't think anyone would go for something as painful and crazy as that.

I was driving down a busy 5 lane street and out of the corner of my eye saw this girl make a mad dash across the street. I couldn't figure out why the hell she was doing that, and I watched the panicked look on her face as she ran. Then, and I'm not saying this to be funny, a van nailed her, and it was so unreal it looked like something from a cartoon, She got tossed in the air. By the time I was able to slow down and stop, I heard her hit the ground and start screaming. I did not want to turn around and look back at all because the sounds alone were nauseating.

Alot of people stopped and ran over to her. She had this posessed look in her eyes, probabbly from the shock of it all, and noticably broke several bones in her leg and arm.

They took a report from me and several other people, but the whole thing was just really weird.