His eldest daughter, Chen Mei-chih, reveals that around 1968 or 1969 one of Ho's close friends was seriously in-jured in a motorcycle accident after running into a pothole. Ho led a number of family and friends out at night, when traffic was lighter, to go around repairing potholes.
大女兒陳美智透露，民國五十七、八年左右，何明德一位朋友因騎車經過有坑洞的路面摔成重傷，於是何明德帶著家人和幾個朋友，利用晚上人車較少的時間，四處補坑洞。