What would you do in a situation like this?

[RutnBuk]

My brother and I are driving home and I see an old truck on the side of the road and about 100 yards up the road there's an old man walking with a gas can so we decided to give him a ride to town which is about 6 miles away. As I am moving stuff around for him to get in the back of the truck I see a full gas can my dad put in there earlier today so I told him I will give him some gas right now so he can at least make it to town. I didnt ask his name or talk very much with him. I just gave him gas and I was ready to get back on the road. This is a 4 lane hwy. Well he takes off in front of us and about 1 mile down the road we see this guy cross from the far right lane all the way to the far left lane and I am thinking he is about to fly off a hill. He gets it back under control and we are not sure what is going on with this guy. We follow him a few more miles and he hits the ditch on the right side going about 65. We are about 1 mile from our turnoff and we realize he has to be drunk or just one bad driver. I seen him make it to a gas station and thats the last I saw of him. Heres my question. Would you have called the law or not? He didnt seem to be drunk or on anything when I was talking to him. I would have hated to see this guy hit someone head on after I helped get him back on the road. Luckily no vehicles we around at that moment. This was on 183 between Lometa and Goldthwaite today. sorry for long read.

[Tmag]

I would have called it in and stayed in the area until they checked him out. As a Safety man I can't help but make sure, would hate to read tomorrows paper showing him in an accident that killed a bunch of folks.

[jrwest66]

I would have called it in and stayed in the area until they checked him out. As a Safety man I can't help but make sure, would hate to read tomorrows paper showing him in an accident that killed a bunch of folks.

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[CM Sackett]

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X3... he may have also been losing blood sugar, or some other physical malady.

NOTE: If you didn't smell it on him... he wasn't THAT drunk.

[clintb]

I agree with the other guys here

[prkchp]

Probably would have offered to drive him home.

[Tmag]

X3... he may have also been losing blood sugar, or some other physical malady.

NOTE: If you didn't smell it on him... he wasn't THAT drunk.

Excellent point CW, have seen this happen also. Either way, good folks can die if he loses it, including himself.

[Speedgoat]

I will have some of what he was having. It has been a long day

[Liberty06]

I would have called it in. Helping a guy out, by not calling, pales in comparison to that guy injuring someone due to intoxication or a health complication.