I decided to treat myself to a little outing to Bury St Edmunds this morning to visit a bookstore, have a coffee and watch the world go by. On driving out of Needham Market I saw some hi vis jackets in the distance, some cycles on the road and pavement and someone bending over, I pulled over into the layby and stopped to help. A woman had cycled down the hill and gone to cycle up on the cycle path but had hit the kerb at a funny angle, she had come off, probably at around 20mph and was KO'd. I only had a basic first aid kit but knew that wouldn't be much good under the circumstances. I have no problem in dealing with incidents like this and go into auto pilot mode. One of the local First Responders turned up, I explained that I was a First Responder but had given up last year. Once I had popped the O2 on she regained some colour and started to answer my questions, I carried out a secondary survey. The ambulance turned up, I handed over and we tried to get her up and onto the stretcher, by this time she was making little sense and it was obvious she had suffered quite a nasty concussion. Her helmet was cracked very badly and there was an obvious abrasion on the top of her head.
I agreed to take her and her husband's bike in my car and drop them at one of the other cyclist's house some 10ish miles away. I left my details and took the bikes as promised.
I was fine at the time but am now going over it in my mind and know I did everything correctly.
Just wanted to write it down and move on really.
