Chain of events

Over the past few days here in Melbourne emergency services had some difficult, tragic and hard to believe jobs. To top all this off its been really hot and people have been behaving like idiots, some tool has been running all over the place setting fire to the northern suburbs, and people are still driving on the roads like they are invincible. The news this morning again shows that they are not with another car slamming into a tree killing a teenager and seriously injuring sever others.

One of the jobs from the last few days really got me thinking - not only for the families and people involved, but also for the poor crews who had to attend. Two days ago there was a minor reversing accident involving two cars. The driver of one of the cars got spooked and accelerated instead of hitting the brakes. The car sped across the road, over the footpath and slammed a poor young woman against a building, crushing her so badly that she lost her leg. If that wasn't tragic enough, a few hours later the glazier who had been dispatched to repair the damage to the building after the accident, was hit in the heart with a nail from a nail gun he was using. The same ambulance crew were dispatched back to the scene and got him to hospital but he died shortly after, despite emergency surgery.

I just got thinking how strange it is that a minor accident lead to several families having their lives changed forever. I'm sure these ripple effects happen all the time, it's just rarely are they so obvious.