1 post from October 2008

The blog I came across with discussed in brief one peculiar effect of car accident. It makes me think twice what really, after the accident, goes on in the mind both of the victim and the one who caused the accident.

Trauma and other forms of shock are given. But there is one interesting thing, at least for those who study the minds, which happened with a driver who just figured in a car accident.

The blog said about “someone who was driving a truck that struck another vehicle and caused a four-vehicle pile-up managed himself to survive though injured, got out of the crashed vehicle and jumped off the ledge in a busy highway.”

At the outset, we might conclude that the man is fleeting from the scene of the accident. But he is not. Witnesses say that he casually walked and “acted bizarre”, then all of a sudden jumped off the ledge.

When the driver was asked by the police afterwards, he said he doesn’t know what he is doing following the collision. Was he lying? If he is, then in all probability he might have indeed tried to flee although rather unsuccessfully.

If he is not, it is interesting to note how these car accidents don’t only damage property, injure human beings or cause wrongful death but also affect the mental faculties of a person which may very well be considered in proving negligence and consequent liability of persons before the law.