The Singaporean cyclist who rescued a young boy from oncoming vehicles on a busy Yishun road has confirmed that he is not related to him in any way.

Video of young boy being rescued by cyclist goes viral on Facebook

On May 17, a video of a young boy who was riding a kick scooter in the middle of a busy road went viral on Facebook, garnering over 120,000 views to date.

In the 30-second video, a young boy can be seen riding on the middle lane of a road at Yishun Avenue 8, and was likely to be in the way of a lorry moving at high speed.

Luckily for him, a cyclist who was riding along the road quickly stopped to pull him away from any oncoming vehicles and made sure he was safe.

Netizens accuse boy's parents of negligence, assume cyclist is his father

Since the video was uploaded, several netizens have come forward to accuse the boy's parents of negligence.

There were even some who assumed that the cyclist who rescued the boy was his father:

Cyclist did not hesitate to help child, told alleged mother to take care of him

To address these concerns, Mothership reached out to the cyclist, Zwan Giant, to hear his side of the story.

According to Zwan, the incident occurred on May 15, at around 5:41pm.

While he was cycling, he happened to see a small boy "moving from the park connector to the road via an opening on the pavement along Yishun Avenue 8", Business Insider(BI) reported.

Zwan told Mothership that he was just cycling along the road when he chanced upon the scene.

Without hesitation, Zwan signalled to the vehicles behind him to stop and hastily picked up the child, whom he estimates to be around three or four years old.

He elaborated that he had stopped in the middle of traffic as the situation was urgent and he had limited time to get to the child.

According to BI, it was then that a woman, whom Zwan presumed to be the boy’s mother, started running towards the boy from around 30 to 40 metres away.

Zwan also clarified that he only continued on his way after telling the woman to "take care of (her) child."

Top image via Naw Zwan Zir and Singapore Roads Safety on Facebook