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A young child was caught on video riding a kick scooter in the middle of a three-lane busy road in Yishun.
The video, shared to Facebook on May 17, 2020, was uploaded to the Singapore Roads safety/Roads Safety.SG group and has been viewed over 51,000 times in less than a day.
The child, a mere toddler, was seen riding on the middle lane of the Yishun Avenue 8 road, and was likely to be in the way of a lorry moving at high speed.
Luckily for the child, a cyclist who was riding along the road quickly stopped to pull the kid to safety by scooping him up and out of the way of oncoming vehicles.
Photo via Singapore Roads Safety/FB
Other motorists also slowed down for the safety of the cyclist and the child.
Photo via Singapore Roads Safety/FB
But a lorry continued at high speed along the middle lane and swerved to the left-most lane to avoid the cyclist and the child.
The cyclist shuffled along the road to the kerb with his bicycle in between his legs after he scooped up the child along with the kick scooter.
Photo via Singapore Roads Safety/FB
Facebook users lambast child's parents, praise cyclist
Several online commenters criticised the child's parents for their negligence.
A few commenters assumed that the cyclist was the child's father.
However, some doubted that the cyclist was the child's parent, and praised the cyclist for his quick thinking to save a life.
According to the Land Transport Authority (LTA)'s regulations, riding a scooter on the road is illegal.
Non-motorised personal mobility devices (PMD) such as kick scooters are allowed on footpaths, but must adhere to the 10km/hour speed limit.
Top image via Singapore Roads Safety/Facebook