First Aid and Accident Procedures
This domain tests whether you can act in the right order at a crash scene without making things worse. The sequence is the same every time: safety, alert, care.
Step one: do not become a casualty
Stop safely, switch off engines, and warn approaching traffic. Only then approach the injured rider.
Step two: call 112
Give the location precisely - road number, kilometre marker, junction or exit - then the number of casualties, what happened and any remaining danger such as leaking fuel. Do not hang up until the operator tells you to.
Step three: care
- Helmet: leave it on. Open the visor, check that the airway is clear and that the casualty is breathing. A helmet is only removed if the airway is blocked and cannot be cleared another way, and then by two trained people supporting the neck.
- Unconscious but breathing: monitor continuously. Do not move the casualty unless there is immediate danger such as fire or traffic.
- Bleeding: apply firm direct pressure with a clean pad, and keep pressing.
- Shock: keep the casualty warm and still, reassure them, and give nothing to eat or drink.
- Not breathing: start chest compressions and send someone else to fetch a defibrillator.
Worked example
A rider is down on a rural road, breathing but unresponsive. You leave the helmet in place, control a bleeding forearm, cover the casualty against cold, send a bystander 50 metres back to warn traffic and 112 is called with the road number and hectometre marker.
The legal duty
Dutch law requires you to give the help you can reasonably give; it does not demand skills you do not have, but it does not excuse doing nothing.
Traps that cost marks
Pulling the helmet off; moving a casualty with a suspected spinal injury unless there is immediate danger; and giving an injured person a drink.