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December 13, 2006 -- Wrong information from a 911 caller caused a four-day delay in finding the bodies of a former Queens couple in their car, which had careened off a North Carolina highway into a swamp, authorities said yesterday.

An unknown cellphone caller told cops last Thursday morning that he saw the Mazda belonging to Wayne and Dianne Guay run off a straight stretch of I-95 in Rocky Mount, N.C., a mile or two north of where the accident actually occurred, police said.

So when authorities went to check the reported location - mile marker 141 - shortly afterward, there was no sign of an accident. After that, a state trooper drove three miles south of that location - to mile marker 138 - and then drove north looking for evidence of a crash, said Lt. Everett Clendenin of the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

The Guays' car veered off the highway onto a grassy embankment that was level with the roadway, knocked down a tree, crashed through a guardrail and then plummeted about 20 feet straight down into a swamp.

The car was found Monday in a swamp near - but not visible from - I-95, between mile markers 139 and 140. Inside were the bodies of Wayne, 57, a former city sanitation worker, and Dianne, 55, a former school aide.

An autopsy yesterday revealed that Wayne Guay died from the force of the crash, while his wife drowned, authorities said.

Apparently in 1999, California amended the laws to remove liability from Good Samaritans who performed assistance in good faith.

http://www.swc.cc.ca.us/~kjacobs/goodsam.htm

Read it again.

My reading of that specifically says that you must be trained in whatever life saving process you use. It even spells out how you are to be trained and how the equipment is to be maintained.

This does not protect just anyone who stops in good faith to help.