Traveling 1,200 km to return to his hometown to avoid the epidemic, falling asleep due to fatigue, a young man crashed into the road railing.

On the afternoon of July 31, officials from the Hien Son Commune Health Station (Do Luong District) said that doctors and medical staff from the station had treated a young man who had an accident on N5 Road.

The young man who was injured was Xong Ba Rong, born in 1999, residing in Na Ngoi commune, Ky Son district. After 3 days and 3 nights of traveling by motorbike from Ho Chi Minh City, traveling 1,200 km, Rong had an accident when he reached N5 road in Hien Son commune. The cause was that Rong fell asleep and then crashed into an iron railing on the side of the road.

Xong Ba Rong's motorbike is currently being kept at the Hien Son Commune Health Station. Photo: Ngoc Phuong

Immediately afterwards, Rong was taken by local people to the Hien Son Commune Health Station for emergency treatment. Doctor Nguyen Xuan Hau - Head of the Commune Health Station said: "Rong suffered injuries in many places on his body, we had to stitch 10 stitches on his right arm, 5 stitches on his right leg, and 3 stitches on his left wrist. His head was not injured, and only the glass part of his helmet was broken. Before that, the health station also performed a free rapid Covid-19 test on Rong, and the results were negative."

After the wounds were stitched and bandaged, the family was contacted. The family wanted the baby to be born.back to familySeeing that Rong could not ride his motorbike home by himself, and that he only had a few tens of thousands of dong left, the people of Hien Son commune and medical staffcontribute moneyto hire an ambulance to take Rong home.

The car carried 8 people from Ky Son back to their hometown. Photo provided by the facility

Also this afternoon, a group of 8 people from Ky Son district were riding motorbikes from the South to their hometown when one of them had a traffic accident in Ha Tinh, due to being too tired and falling. Fortunately, a truck driver with license plate 38H-010.17 drove them to the Ben Thuy bridge guard station, then asked for permission to take them back to Ky Son district.