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I know at one time a "Good Samaritan" law required people to stop and give assistance. I would imagine that isn't a requirement in North Carolina?

I posted a link that said not.

I admit the link was confusing because it was to a news story that quoted more than one person; a cop, a member of a highay safety studay commission at UNC Chapel Hill, etc., and was so poorly written that the reporter did not indicate who made the statement.

I have googled and found nothing that says more than the persons involved must stop.

If your state has such a requirement, you might post the link.

As for mile markers, that sounds good. The trouble is that after you look at about 200 of them, you can't remember the number of the last one you passed, certainly not when there is blood all over the place.

Truckers are really good at remembering mile markers, but the average person is not.

All new cell phones have GPS that is activated by making a 911 call, so eventually this will take care of itself as all old phones are replaced and 911 services get better at it.

Almost all calls regarding traffic accidents will be made from cell phones.

I don't know about North Carolina, but in California (at least when I lived there) in order to get a Class I driver's license to drive school busses, etc. you had to take a course in First Aid and pass it in order to get that license level. One of the requirements in the First Aid class was that you were required to give assistance in an actual emergency. People were actually sued for not doing so. They may have overturned that law by now.

As for the mile markers, they aren't really that difficult to follow. They start at the state line, and chenge each mile. Even the exits are marked with corresponding numbers, depending on the nearest mile marker. But if you were to ask the average driver, they wouldn't know that, because there is never an explanation given to new drivers here. If you can mark an "X" in North Carolina, you can get a driver's license. And now you don't even have to speak English.