PETALING JAYA: A man’s quick actions saved a six-year-old girl’s life after he stopped her from crossing a road and almost getting hit by an oncoming lorry.
In the Tuesday (May 14) morning incident, the man, who was on his way to work, stopped his superbike on the road shoulder after noticing a little girl trying to cross a road at a housing area in Fasa 2 Puncak Alam.
The man sounded his horn to warn an oncoming lorry, which did not see the little girl on the road, then helped her get home safely.
A seven-minute video of the incident, believed to be recorded by the man himself, has gone viral on social media since Wednesday (May 15) morning.
In the video, the man could be heard asking the girl called Anita on the whereabouts of her parents.
“Where is your mother? Where are you going? Who’s at home?” he asked.
The girl answered that her mother was at work while her father was asleep at home.
“My mother is working… my father is sleeping,” said the girl, adding that she wanted to go home.
Her answer clearly got him shocked and puzzled as to how she could be allowed to roam around the neighbourhood alone.
Anita pointed in the direction of her house, which was some distance away, and the man carried her towards it.
When they arrived, there was a worker doing renovation works outside the house and the man asked whether he knew who Anita was.
The worker admitted that he saw her exiting the house and confirmed that she was the daughter of the homeowner.
The man who saved Anita was visibly upset that the worker did not even stop her from going outside.
“You should’ve stopped her… Carry her into the house. If I didn’t see her just now, she would’ve been crushed by a vehicle. She was already on the road.
“How could this little girl be allowed to walk to the road. The lorry driver didn’t see her on the road because the height of his vehicle. If I didn’t honk just now, she would’ve been gone,” he said.
Not long after the confrontation, Anita’s father, believed to have been woken up from his nap, came out of the house in a dazed state.
“Assalamualaikum bang (brother)... You were asleep upstairs? Did you know that your daughter already reached the main road?
“I stopped her just now… She was almost hit by a lorry. If I didn’t notice her just now, she might’ve been gone by now,” said the man.
Anita’s father profusely thanked the man for saving his daughter and looking out for her.
The man also warned Anita’s father to be more aware of his daughter’s whereabouts and for the worker to stop Anita from going out if he saw her trying to do so again.
He also told Anita’s father that she fell down somewhere and was slightly injured before he found her.
Anita could be heard telling her father that she wanted her mother before the father answered that she was not at home.
After sending her home safely, the man advised the public to be aware of their children’s activities and whereabouts and to lock their gates if they wished to sleep.
“We don’t want unwanted things to happen. If possible, take good care of your family, small children can’t think for themselves,” he said before ending the video.
Meanwhile, social media users praised the man for his quick actions and thanked him for saving the girl.
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