Early this morning around 6 plus, a pick-up over-turned along Chua Chu Kang Road (near Home Team Academy or Qian Hu Fish Farm). Both roads from Chua Chu Kang and Boon Lay were affected. Vehicles from both directions were stalled just before the area where the pick-up laid.
Passengers have to get off the buses because they have reached a "dead end". A father and a son took a bus numbered 172 from Boon Lay to Chua Chu Kang since the son was studying at a primary school there. It was already close to 6.50am. They walked frantically along the long stretch of Chua Chu Kang, hoping that at the end of this road, they would be able to catch a cab to rush to the school.
A man was driving to Boon Lay, seeing this jam, tried to do a U turn before being caught in the jam. He saw the father and son almost running on the road. He winded down his windows and asked if any help was needed. The father explained the situation. The man offered to drive his son to the school. Although we have been taught not to take a ride from strangers, at this desperate situation, his son hopped onto the car.
Some time later, the son called his father to tell him that he has reached the school just in time. The family was extremely grateful to this stranger.
That father was my colleague.
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