Friend's rescue bid 'left crash victim paralysed'

A woman accused of turning her friend into a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car “like a rag doll” may not be protected by California’s Good Samaritan law, a court has ruled.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision that the Good Samaritan law only protected people from liability if they were administering emergency medical care. The perceived danger of remaining in the wrecked car was not “medical”, the court said.