onlooker:
(also ‘looker-on‘ with plural form ‘lookers-on’ ; plural: ‘onlookers‘)
onlookers at an accident
a person who watches, looks on or observes some activity without taking part in it;
a spectator;
a bystander,
onlookers helping a bomb blast victim
e.g.
As an onlooker, Gerald was asked by the police to stand witness to the accident he looked on, and that made Gerald promise himself never to be an onlooker even at the Oscar Festival Show!
A crowd of onlookers gathered around the woman crying out aloud in the street, but nobody tried to ask her why she was crying or what she wanted.
The police at the accident site asked the onlookers to keep off as they might disturb the evidence.
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