Letters

To help, or not to help

My wife and I were walking to a restaurant in Jilin city, Jilin province, on a rainy evening when suddenly we heard a big bang. We saw a motorcyclist who had skidded under a parked taxi. The man was in pain but no one came forward to help him.

Against my wife's advice that I could be implicated in the accident, I approached the man and asked whether he needed help. With hands clasped together and pain evident on his face, he managed to ask if I could help him reach the side of the road, which, together with my wife, was quickly done. We waited for him to call home on his mobile phone and started walking again after we were certain that he was safe and his family was coming to help him.