"One Friday night I had three unconscious 11- to 13-year-olds from three separate locations in a small town," he says. "I was used to dealing with 15-year-olds vomiting over my ambulance, but these were younger. Then three years ago in February I came across an unconscious 12-year-old abandoned by their friends in the freezing dark. I thought, why would young people walk away and leave their friend?"
Evans talked to his nieces and nephews and became aware the young people may have been driven by the fear of not knowing what to do. So he decided to launch an awareness campaign: "Don't walk away and let a friend die".
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