The "cardboard uncle" was lying on the road, bleeding, after he was hit by a taxi. But all he wanted to know when passers-by rushed to his aid was: "Where is my trolley? Where is my trolley? I have two packets of biscuits inside."
The accident happened at the junction of Yishun Avenue 3 and Sembawang Road at about 2.30pm on Thursday. The elderly man, later identified as Mr Wong Kum Chew, 63, was crossing the road at the junction with his trolley when the taxi, which was making a left turn, hit him, witnesses told Lianhe Wanbao.
One of the passers-by who rushed to help him, Ms Irene Lim, 36, a marketing director, told the Chinese evening daily that she saw the accident and rushed over.
She found Mr Wong lying on the road near his trolley loaded with cardboard, with cuts, grazes and blood all over his body.
"It was heartbreaking seeing him like that," she said. An eyewitness told Wanbao that the impact of the crash knocked Mr Wong to the ground and sent him tumbling for about 2m.
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The accident happened at the junction of Yishun Avenue 3 and Sembawang Road at about 2.30pm on Thursday. The elderly man, later identified as Mr Wong Kum Chew, 63, was crossing the road at the junction with his trolley when the taxi, which was making a left turn, hit him, witnesses told Lianhe Wanbao.
One of the passers-by who rushed to help him, Ms Irene Lim, 36, a marketing director, told the Chinese evening daily that she saw the accident and rushed over.
She found Mr Wong lying on the road near his trolley loaded with cardboard, with cuts, grazes and blood all over his body.
"It was heartbreaking seeing him like that," she said. An eyewitness told Wanbao that the impact of the crash knocked Mr Wong to the ground and sent him tumbling for about 2m.
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