Giving a Helping Hand and the Bystander Effect
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 01/12/2017

Last week, I was out walking on the street heading to school to pick up my son. I saw an elderly gentleman up ahead on one of those mobility scooters. He seemed to be backing out from a steep driveway. Then I realised, he wasn’t backing out – he had lost control and was rolling out onto the road. Luckily for him, he was just near a school zone which limits traffic to 40 km/h. All the cars saw him and were easily able to give him a wide berth. I was still quite a distance away, but I saw that he had managed to steer the scooter back towards the kerb, which stopped him from rolling down the street. As I got closer, I saw that he was turning the key trying to start the scooter. As no one else was stopping, I decided to go up and ask him if everything was okay. I offered to push him back up onto the footpath. He was quite happy with that so I got into position at the back of the scooter. Luckily, there was another man walking along the footpath who offered to help me, so together we were able to push him back up onto the footpath. The scooter started back up again and he went on his way, thankful that we had helped. The point of the story is that it’s pretty simple to help out. I was in a little bit of a rush, but it only took about two minutes to help him out and get him on his way.

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