who carries a first aid kit ??

[dave351cid]

today i had a reminder of why everyone should carry a simple first aid kit in their car.

i came across a situation where a driver had left the road, colided with a tree and gone over a steep embankment after hitting some loose gravel on a bend. when i got there the driver had gotten out of her car and 3 other cars had stopped. (several cars had gone passed without even slowing down ).

not knowing what had happened other then seeing the girl on the side of the road with bloodied legs and a tree blocking part of the lane, i pulled over and grabbed my first aid kit just incase. lukily the young lady was the only one in the car and was kind of ok except for a very nasty deep gash in the back of her leg above the knee.

we get first aid training at work but its a bit confronting when you actually need to use that training. but i was able to use the first aid kit to bandage her leg while we waited for an ambulance (whitch had to come about 80km).

the thing is that although everyone that had pulled over to help had done first aid training (interesting in itself ) i was the only one who had any kind of a first aid kit to use. its something that i have always done since i started driving was to have a firstaid kit and a fire extingisher stashed away in the car somewhere just incase. you never know when you might need them and they both have been used a few times.

it costs bugger all to carry a simple kit and even if you dont know how to use it, there will probably be someone around who does and just having it could be all you need to save a live.

so who has a first aid kit and or fire extinguisher in their car.???