Video: Close Shave For Bike Rider As Iron Gate Nearly Falls On Him

The owner sensed that the gate would fall and therefore held on to it tightly, which saved the rider

It was a close shave for a bike rider in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, when an iron gate almost fell on him while he was passing through an alley. A video of the incident, lasting a little over a minute, shows the entire sequence of events. On another day, the incident could have caused massive injury to the bike rider. However, thanks to another man's reflex action, no damage was caused. “An iron gate falls just as a motorcyclist is passing through the alley. Luckily, the man behind the gate catches it before it strikes the rider," read the caption of the video. Two CCTV cameras, placed at different angles, captured the incident. The clip begins with a man coming out of his car, parked right in front of what appears to be his residence. The man approaches his house and removes what looked like a small piece of brick supporting the iron gates. As soon as the man removed the “stopper”, the gate broke into two parts. Perhaps it was already broken and slipped the owner's mind. Anyway, just as the gate was about to collapse, a bike rider passed by and noticed the gate was falling. He was riding at a good speed and tried to slow down right beside the car parked in front of the residence. The owner, however, sensed that the gate would fall and therefore held on to it tightly, which saved the rider. The rider immediately parked his bike on the side of the road, got off it, and came to assist the owner in placing the broken gates on the outside wall. The two men also conversed in their language.