A driver who blocked a wheelchair-accessible ramp in a carpark was stopped from leaving by a man in wheelchair.

As the driver tried to drive away from the scene, the man in wheelchair yelled at him in Chinese and Hokkien, and refused to stop blocking the car.

After failing to drag the wheelchair out of the way, the driver then tried to get the man in the wheelchair to budge, by inching forward.

The incident was captured on video from a nearby building, and uploaded to the SG Road Vigilante Facebook page.

According to the post, this happened on May 1.

What happened?

The video shows a man in white, sitting in a wheelchair and blocking the path of a maroon car, which seems to be on its way out of the parking lot.

The man in white is accompanied by a lady in yellow.

Driver tries to drag wheelchair away

The driver gets out of the car and tries to drag the wheelchair out of the car's path:

This proves to be unsuccessful, as the man in white moves his wheelchair back into its original position before the driver has time to get back into the car.

The man in white starts yelling in a mixture of English, Chinese, and Hokkien:

Woey, bully ah, bully ah, woey! (indistinct) 他 bully 我. Woey! Kio mata 来 ah! Kio mata 来 ah! Woey, mata lah!

(Woey, bully ah, bully ah, woey! (indistinct) He bully me. Woey! Call the police ah! Call the police ah! Woey, police lah!)

The man in white seems to dial a number on his phone while another man tries to reason with him.

Driver tries pushing wheelchair away with his car

With his initial move thwarted, the driver tries to drive forward slowly.

The wheelchair budges slightly, but the lady in yellow then blocks the car from moving any further, while the other man gestures and shouts at the driver.

The video shows that the car had been stopped in a "no parking" lot, in a position that obstructed a wheelchair-accessible ramp.

Both men were blamed

In response to the video, some blamed the driver for being in that space in the first place.

However, some pointed out that he may not have parked the car there, and could have stopped there for other reasons.

It's not clear from the video why the car was in that space, nor can we tell how long it stopped there.

Some blamed the driver for taking matters into his own hands by moving his car forward, while others pointed out that a simple apology from the driver might have been sufficient to placate the man in the wheelchair.

Although the man in the wheelchair was indeed inconvenienced, he was the subject of some criticism too as he could have resolved the issue by simply moving away.

Commenters pointed out that the man in the wheelchair could simply have made a report with photo evidence for the authorities to follow up, and did not need to physically obstruct the car.

You can watch the video here on the SG Road Vigilante page:

Or watch it here:

Can members of the public detain those who commit crimes?

Members of the public are legally allowed to arrest those who commit crimes, according to Section 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

The section states, however, that this can only be done if the person being arrested commits an offence of sufficient seriousness - for example, murder, attempted murder, or voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

This can also be done for persons who have been publicly proclaimed (in a daily newspaper or courthouse bulletin board, for example) as having absconded, under Section 88 of the CPC.

Top image via SG Road Vigilante on Facebook