A woman has been praised for hugging a postman after he accidentally crashed his motorcycle into the side of her car.
The woman turned left onto a main road in Boronia Melbournein the east, on Thursday morning.
She had to slow down for a vehicle in front of her that was in a petrol station.
The postman behind her had looked the other way to see if there were oncoming traffic, but didn’t see her car stop in front of him.
He then plowed straight into the right side of the vehicle and went flying from the impact of his engine.
A postman crashed into a car in Boronia, Melbourne’s east, on Thursday morning
The crash left him sprawled on the road, while several packages he was about to deliver fell to the ground.
The driver of the blue car got out and walked over to him before pulling him in for a hug.
Another bystander checked on the mailman and began helping him clean up the mess.
The images were shared on Facebook, with social media users praising the woman for her act of kindness.
“Give that lady a cape,” one person wrote.
“Thank you for putting humanity first. How much less stressful this simple act of humanity has made this situation,” said another.
“If only everyone along the way would react like this,” read another comment.
The driver of the blue car hugged the postman after colliding with her