"What if it was me?"

One man in Singapore, Erman Eusope, has written a Facebook post reflecting on what he had witnessed on the road on July 20 afternoon.

He said he was driving along Tampines Road at around 3pm when he noticed a stationary car that had stopped on the grass patch.

Sensing something was amiss as the car did not have its hazard lights on, he decided to stop as he also noticed that the driver seemed to be "sliding to his left".

He approached the car to find the driver sitting inside the locked car, and kept banging on the window in an attempt to get a response.

The driver remained unresponsive, and was suspected to be suffering from a cardiac arrest.

Erman then called the police for assistance.

According to his post, he said that a few other drivers had also stopped.

They managed to break a rear window of the car using a hammer and a metal pole, and unlocked the doors from the inside to pull the driver out.

As the driver's foot was on the brakes, Erman pulled the handbrake and shifted the gear to neutral, so that the car would not move forward when the driver was moved.

One of the other motorists, known as Taufiq, also performed CPR on the man until an ambulance arrived.

Thinking that the driver's phone was ringing, Erman went to retrieve it from the car.

That was when he noticed the driver's handphone wallpaper – apparently a photo of young children, which he presumed to be the driver's offspring.

This made him think about his own kids, he said, as he contemplated his own mortality.

"What if it was me? How will my wife cope?... This message is a reminder to myself," he wrote.

Subsequently, in an update to his post, he said that the police had informed him that the man had passed on.

This is his full post:

Top photo via Facebook/Erman Eusope