Beetham res­i­dents say they were fo­cused on help­ing, not steal­ing from vic­tims of an ac­ci­dent that oc­curred along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route on Mon­day.

Video of the ac­ci­dent and res­i­dents rush­ing to as­sist the dri­ver of a 12-seater maxi taxi and an off-du­ty po­lice­man went vi­ral on so­cial me­dia, with many prais­ing res­i­dents for their brav­ery.

Po­lice said that, based on ini­tial in­for­ma­tion, the dri­ver of a 12-seater maxi tried to make a U-turn on­to an­oth­er lane of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route when the dri­ver of a white car col­lid­ed with the back of the minibus, caus­ing it to veer in­to a drain.