Unprofessional help leads to crash victim’s untimely death

Dubai Police has issued warnings against crowding around an accident site and incorrect rescue attempts.

Bystanders have been warned not to crowd the accident site or to rescue victims. The warning was announced after untimely death of an accident victim which was the result of unprofessional rescue attempt.

A senior police officer said that after an accident recently, a crowd of bystanders tried to rescue the young man.”However, they dragged him improperly from the driver’s seat, which broke his spine. It caused severe damage to the victim’s spine and he died before the rescue team could arrive,” said the officer.

“The young man would have been alive had it not been for the rescue attempt by unqualified people.”

Major Ahmed Atiq Abdullah Bourguiba, deputy director of search and rescue, Dubai Police, said crowding bystanders are still a “huge problem” for the police as they “delay communication with the authorities concerned”.

The crowding of the bystanders causes obstacles for the authorities to access the accident site.