I think unfortuantely it is just the way people are.

My son broke his femur at Auskick last year. He was on the oval for a period of time whilst we waited for the ambulance and in a considerable amount of pain. I was shocked at the amount of parents (and I know the parents were at the oval as I had seen them) who allowed their kids to hover around. Even when the ambulance officers arrived and were trying to stablise my son , getting pain relief etc they were still standing around. It wasn't out of concern it was just plain curiosity.

I can't understand why the parents would want their kids seeing another child in such pain. When he was moved onto the strecher it was horrible to watch and listen to yet these kids were rubber necking away. I'm quessing they end up being the said adults that pull up as close as they can to traffic lights.

I might add that I didn't really want all these kids hanging around also I was distraught enough without having little people sticking there heads in.
I agree about the natural curiosity. I was in a bad car accident when I was 5 and my mum told me that there were so many people around watching, they came out of there houses and because traffic was stopped they got out of their cars and came and watched. I was unconcious and don't remember the accident at all because of amnesia so I don't remember but it has always made me turn away whenever there is any sort of incident whether it be a car accident or something else.

I also used to work with racehorses, one morning I had a young colt jump on me and he broke my upper right arm. I remember been amazed at how many people stopped and just stood around watching, even as they were cutting my jacket and top off they all just watched. The ambulence guy ended up yelling for everyone to bugger off. I liked him, even more when he finally gave me the morphine I wanted so badly.