> Tragic. I, personally, could not sit idly by and watch, or record, anyone suffering without attempting to assist. Consequences be damned, I would hope for the

> Tragic. I, personally, could not sit idly by and watch, or record, anyone suffering without attempting to assist. Consequences be damned, I would hope for the same assistance if I were injured & needing aid. Until last year I would have said the same but then I learned about the harsh reality in the Dominican Republic: A rich person who helps will always be blamed even if one arrived at the crash site an hour after the crash. In case of bodily harm to the victim, the accused goes to jail until trial (which can take weeks or even months). You can even get some insurance that covers you for that case - if you have that, you can go into a hotel in Santiago that was converted into a luxury prison. And of course the accused is asked to provide for all 50 or so people in the victim's family until s/he can work again - because none of those 50 people has a job and they depended on the victim's low paying job to feed them all. And one cannot count on a fair trial since corruption is so widespread that even judges are for sale (friends were ordered to pay severance package to a former employee based on a 12 year long employment - they arrived on Hispanola 9 years ago, started their business 8 years ago and had all papers to prove it...) So no, I would not always help anymore. I think India is doing the right thing: Enabling people to help by creating the laws that protect them from becoming a victim themselves.