SINGAPORE – A 12-year-old boy is Singapore’s latest hero after his sister shared his deed of kindness on Facebook yesterday (May 31).
It seems that Ashvin Gunasegaran was the first person to approach two drivers in an accident to offer help, while other people – presumably many adults – were “busy crowding around taking pictures or videos”.
When he learned that the driver of one of the cars is pregnant and was bleeding, he ran to ask his friends to call for an ambulance.
According to Ashvin’s sister, the accident happened yesterday at a busy junction. A photo she posted of the accident showed that it was in Yishun Avenue 2.
Miss Laava Gunasegaran said her brother was on his way home after a remedial lesson. He was crossing the road when he heard a loud “boom” behind him.
When he saw that a car had crashed into another, Ashvin appraoched the two drivers instinctively, she said, paying no heed to the fact that he could get hurt. “Impatient” drivers were already moving their cars around the accident vehicles then, she described.
One of the drivers told Ashvin that she may be stuck and asked him to try opening her car door, Miss Gunasegaran said. When Ashvin learned that the other driver is pregnant and was bleeding, he wasted no time asking his friends to call for an ambulance.
When Miss Gunasegaran asked Ashvin why he didn’t ask adults to help, he told her: “I don’t know! Everybody was so busy crowding around taking pictures or videos. I don’t know why nobody came to help!”
Miss Gunasegaran said in her post that she was not trying to “show off”. Touched by her brother’s action and feeling proud of him, she just had to share.
sinsh@sph.com.sg
