because there are risks. A "Good Samaritan Law" to protect helpers from lawsuits my be needed. Long ago, my husband and I saw a motorcyle accident near San Diego. The US Marine Sargeant driver had been drinking and hit a concrete bridge abutment which sent his passenger, a US Marine Corporal and the motorbike into the air. The Corporal would have bled to death if my husband had not stopped and blocked the brachial (armpit) artery. The Marine kept asking, "Am I going to die?" My husband said, "No." Then a nurse stopped and took over. A man stopped, parking infront of the cars lined up, and brought a blanket to cover the wounded man. Later the police came and asked the Sargeant what happened. He pointed to the good Samaritan who brougt a blanket and said,"He hit my bike with his car." If my husband and I had not seen the accident, an innocent man would have been charged. In Texas, no one stopped to help me for ten hours when my car broke down on a highway near Corpus Christi. Finally, a policeman stopped tohelp. In Virgina, I saw at least ten cars stop immediately at an accident, to help, near Norfolk. People are more likely to help if they can be protected by a Good Samaritan Law. If Israel does not have one, perhaps such a law should be passed to protect those who stop to help. In France, it is illegal NOT to stop and help. The Corporal did survive, but his career with the US Marines was over and he was discharged. The Sargeant was in denial about his guilt in the matter and I was repremanded for telling him later when I saw him at a hospital since my husband and I were Medical Service Corps officers. The Marine Sargeant's Officer boss did not want the Sargeant to be told he was responsible. I always wondered why.