Since something very similar happened in Hartford, CT (this doesn’t have the worst parts edited out) a couple of years ago, I’ve had time to think about this kind of behavior.
I don’t have any answers.
I like to think that if I had seen this happen in Hartford, and if I had time to react, then I’d stop, block traffic and at least get the man out of the street if he could be moved, or failing that, just block traffic in order to prevent potential future injury. But since I know that sometimes things happen too fast for “the right reaction” ... I just don’t know. I know what I would want to do, and I know that I’ve stopped and rendered aid for much less serious issues.
When we go overseas to jobsites and plants in China, Indonesia, India and other places where things are done “differently” than they are in the US and Europe we are given specific instructions: If we’re involved in an accident in which our vehicles (which we do not drive – we hire local drivers) can be driven after a collision, including a personal injury collision, then drive away. Settle the issue later with police, attorneys and diplomats as may be required. Our managers do not want us to risk our own lives – or possibly to become hostages – by attempting to help or render aid, which is a sad fact of our traveling lives. I’m glad that I’ve never witnessed anything like this in person, because I don’t think that I could follow that instruction. Some of my colleagues have been in cars driven by somewhat reckless drivers who have caused property damage, sideswiping parked cars, for example, and then continued on as if nothing had happened.