A vietnamese boy escaped luckily from a meet fate, when he was involved in a traffic accident in the city of Nam Dinh first of the month. And he can thank his mother for, writes the Daily Mail.

The two sat on the back of a motorcycle, which was knocked out of the course, as it came in close encounter with a car. It got the mother and the son to fall of the motorcycle and an oncoming truck.

the Son was a few centimeters from being hit by the truck’s left front wheel, until his mother instinctively got into his hood and pulled him to safety at the last moment.

See his mother’s lightning-fast response in the video above the article.