Hawkins v. Palmer

The appellant, driving south from Ferndale to Bellingham at three-thirty or four a. m. on September 23, 1945, discovered that a Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe had been injured when the motorcycle they were riding collided with an automobile. They were lying on the west side of the road, she entirely off the pavement and he with his feet on the paved portion of the highway and his body lying at right angles to the pavement and across the shoulder which flanked the pavement at that point.

Discovering that their injuries were critical and that an ambulance and medical aid were needed immediately, he drove…