At about 2 o'clock in the morning on May 1, a landslide occurred on the Chayang section of Meida Expressway in Meizhou City, Guangdong. As of 15:30 on the 2nd, 48 people have died in the disaster, another 3 people have DNA to be further confirmed and 30 people have been injured.
At the time of the disaster, Huang Jiandu, an elderly man in his sixties, knelt down on the Meida Expressway just to stop cars that might have fallen into the deep craters of the collapse. When recalling that night again, Huang Jiandu choked up and said: "I can't watch a car fall, I can only stop the car with my whole body, I don't care about thinking so much." ”
At about 2 o'clock in the morning on May 1, a landslide occurred on the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway, and Huang Jiandu's family happened to drive through the road. Huang Jiandu's son-in-law, Rao Yi, told reporters: "That night, I drove a 7-seater business car from Longgang, Shenzhen, to my home in Qingxi Town, Dapu County, Meizhou. In addition to the parents-in-law, there were also mothers, wives and two children. ”
Rao described the scene of the night to reporters
Mr. Rao said that when he passed through the Chayang Road, he saw a black shadow on the road ahead. With his driving experience, he thought that there was a small pothole of 3 to 5 centimeters in front of him or that the road was being repaired, so he immediately changed lanes and prepared to pass quickly. "At that time, my speed was about 115 km/h, and when I passed, the front wheels of my car made a loud crashing sound, and the rear wheels also had a sense of friction, and the whole car seemed to 'jump' up, and it rushed forward for two or three hundred meters before stopping. ”
At that time, the sleeping family in the car was awakened by the loud crash. Mr. Rao got out of the car to check and found that the tires of the car had been crooked and deflated. "Until the moment the vehicle stopped, we didn't know there was a landslide and thought it was road damage. My mother thought of signaling the cars behind her to try to stay on the good side of the road to avoid a puncture. Immediately, Mr. Rao walked back and was shocked to find that the black shadow on the road was not a pothole, but a road collapse. Afterwards, Mr. Rao deduced that the collapse may have occurred at the moment when the front wheels of his car passed.
Seven people in the car that night
After the collapse, Mr. Rao's family was the first to call the police. Faced with the cars coming from behind and falling into the deep crater of the collapse, they desperately waved their flashlights to signal the opposite vehicle to stop. But no matter how much they waved and shouted, the oncoming car on the opposite side was not alert.
So, Huang Jiandu hurriedly climbed over the guardrail, went to the other side of the collapsed road section by going in the opposite direction of the lane, and waved his hand at a certain distance from the collapse location in an attempt to stop the vehicle. "At that time, the speed of the vehicles on the highway was around 100-120 km/h, I waved my hand and shouted, and the owners of the passing cars slowed down and thought it was okay and drove forward again. I was really sad to watch the car passing in front of me fall. Huang Jiandu said.
Huang Jiandu described the scene to reporters that night
At that time, the sky was drizzling, and it was impossible to stop the owner, and there was nothing to stop the car at the scene, so Huang Jiandu did not hesitate to kneel down in the middle of the fast lane and stop the car with his whole body. At that time, the owner of a car who did not know the situation ahead poked his head out and shouted, "Don't die." The owner thought that Huang Jiandu would walk away, but he didn't. Huang Jiandu knew that if he couldn't stop it, the car would definitely fall, and the owner would probably die. "I can't drive forward, the front is collapsing. Huang Jiandu hurriedly explained. After the owner of the stopped car learned the truth, he expressed his gratitude to Huang Jiandu.
In this way, on a rainy night in the early hours of the morning, after the old man in his sixties knelt down on the highway and stopped the car with his body, the drivers passing by became alert, and a car stopped before the collapse location. After stopping the car, Huang Jiandu did not leave his name and quietly left the scene to meet his family. Huang Jiandu's family also stayed on the other side of the collapsed road, providing water, clothing and other help to the trapped people who were rescued until the arrival of fire and rescue personnel.
Huang Jiandu recalled the events of that night and kept crying
Now, recalling that night, Huang Jiandu wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, still unable to hide his sadness: "I was a little scared when I thought about it, but I didn't think about it so much at the time, let alone that there might be danger in the process of stopping the car, so I thought that I couldn't let them fall." ”
Source: Comprehensive Yangcheng Evening News (reporter Guo Siqi, Cai Jiahong, Zeng Yuwen, Wang Jiongxun), China Central Radio and Television, Voice of China, CCTV News