Dang Vuong. SCREENGRAB from Chronicle Live
A car salesman from Newcastle, UK, has become an elderly woman’s “Superman” and proved that “not all superheroes wear capes.”
Dang Vuong rushed to a grandmother’s aid after she fell in her bathroom and dialed the wrong number on Sunday, July 31.
The elderly woman thought she had rung up her granddaughter to plead for help after she injured herself while showering. Instead, 34-year-old Dang answered her call and decided to save her, according to local news site Chronicle Live.
Vuong told the news site that his receptionist, who was stationed at a car showroom at Stratstone BMW, passed the phone to him.
“She called our landline and got through to our receptionist, who asked me what to do,” Vuong told the news site. “At first, I thought she was just across the road, it turned out she was about two miles away. I drove over there while our receptionist kept her talking on the phone.”
Vuong drove to the old woman’s house, which was left unlocked, and hastily ran to meet the fallen grandmother.
“When I arrived, she was in shock more than anything, there was blood on her face and the bath was overflowing,” Vuong said.
“I told her who I was and then scooped her up and put her on the sofa and covered her with a blanket and waited until her caretakers and family came,” he added.
When the grandmother’s relatives finally came, he rushed back to work. In an interview with Today, Vuong expounded that he was a modest and generous man “brought up to help people, especially elders.”
In a Facebook post, Sara Tweedy, the pensioner’s granddaughter, thanked Vuong for his help and praised his act of heroism.
“We can’t thank him enough for what he [has] done for her, there really is some caring and thoughtful people out there that don’t get recognized for what they do,” Tweedy wrote. Gianna Francesca Catolico
