Well, Art, I wish someone woud have the sense to pass something similar for us benighted UKers.

We seem to be acquiring what we perceive as a US habit of suing anyone and everyone here, as if this will somehow prevent life sometimes sending us what we least want.

I have helped out at more than one traffic accident, I view it as the duty of one civilised being to another, but I know from discussing it that most of my friends and colleagues would not do so, unless they were already involved in some other way. It seems to come from a combination of 1] having little idea what to do anyway, 2] fear of the possible consequences, and 3] bone idleness.

I seem to remember learning that some of the European countries have laws compelling people to assist, including equiping their vehicles with first aid kits. Not sure I would go so far (there are, after all, some monumentally dumb people around, whose "help" could be lethal) but a "best efforts made" defence enshrined in law sounds to me like a very good idea.