3 ms·

I'm not familiar with this phenomenon of being jailed for helping a crash victim. Can someone elaborate? (Is this as US litigation culture thing?)

• DanBC 10y ago
  > Tewari set out to understand this behaviour, and found the same pattern repeated time and again across the country. Passers-by who could have helped were holding back and doing nothing. > "The foremost reason was intimidation by police," he says. > "Oftentimes if you assist someone the police will assume you're helping that person out of guilt."
• LionessLover 10y ago
  Reading the article and not just the comments occasionally helps :-)
  • gph 10y ago
    Heck even just reading the title should clue you in to the fact that we aren't discussing US litigation. Some people...
    • nicky0 10y ago
      Sorry.