Not-So-Good Samaritan Charges for Trip to Hospital
There was no Good Samaritan for Gregory White as he lay injured at the side of the Trans-Canada Highway in the heart of British Columbia’s Bible Belt.
Instead, the only motorist who stopped demanded to be paid $35 to take White to the hospital.
White, 26, was in the hospital last week in Abbotsford with a cracked vertebra and multiple bruises suffered when his eastbound car went out of control on the four-lane highway and came to rest in the grassy median.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said there was a low fog at the time, so his car was not noticed.
White dragged himself to the edge of the highway, where he lay four hours as other cars sped past.
He told police that when a car finally stopped, the driver demanded that White pay $35 to be taken to hospital.
White said he agreed, and was driven to a hospital where the unidentified driver took the $35 and drove away.
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