The Meida Expressway extends eastward to Fujian, and has been the preferred route for Liu Yongjin to return to his hometown in Longyan, Fujian Province for ten years. If there were no accidents, he would have left on the evening of April 30 and would have been able to get home in the early hours of the next morning.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning on May 1, a landslide occurred on the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway, and the falling vehicle ignited a raging fire.
Ignoring the loud noise ahead, Liu Yongjin resolutely climbed over the guardrail and rescued six people after stopping the car; Rao Yi, a native of Meizhou, drove over the car at a gallop a moment before the collapse of the expressway on the left, but his father-in-law, Huang Jiandu, climbed over the guardrail and went against the road after escaping, kneeling on the highway to stop the car; 200 meters away from the collapse, there was also a refrigerated truck parked horizontally, blocking the traffic coming from behind......
The disaster struck in the early hours of the morning, and a group of ordinary people stepped forward, and then quickly returned to ordinary life. In the past few days, the reporter interviewed a number of well-wishers who participated in the early morning rescue, and recorded the many faces behind the extraordinary righteous deeds.
On the evening of May 2, rescue forces worked at the site of the collapse disaster on the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Guangdong. Xinhua News Agency
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Rao Yi originally planned to have a reunion of the two families in his hometown of Tai Po, Meizhou during the May Day holiday.
On the evening of April 30, he drove his mother, wife, and two children back to Tai Po from Shenzhen, with his parents-in-law in the car.
It coincides with the rush hour, and the road stops and stops. In the early hours of the morning, there were 7 people in the car, except for Rao Yi, who was driving, everyone else fell asleep.
Rao Yi's family
When passing through the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway, Rao Yi suddenly noticed that there was a black piece in front of him, he subconsciously changed lanes, and after passing quickly from the leftmost fast lane, the car burst a tire.
"At that time, the wheels may have fallen off a little, and they were completely dragged up by the inertia of the car. ”
At this time, the people in the car were awakened, thinking that Rao Yi had an accident when he dozed off, and Rao Yi didn't realize that this accident was much more serious than he imagined.
After he got out of the car, there was a dull "bang" sound from the rear car, "not like the sound of a normal rear-end collision, it felt like hitting the yellow mud".
Rao Yi found out that the road had collapsed, and he had just dialed the 122 traffic accident police number, and immediately dialed the 120 emergency number.
The family anxiously raised their phones, turned on their flashlights, waved their hands, and shouted "don't drive forward" in the darkness of the night, but still watched as seven or eight cars rushed into the collapsed landslide.
"Some cars fell and exploded, and we heard people below shouting 'help'. ”
Whenever a vehicle crashes into a landslide, the road surface continues to expand the collapse area due to the impact, but Rao's family can't care so much, "The road collapses a little, we will retreat a little."
Rao Yi, who had been desperately shaking his hand to stop the car behind him, didn't notice that his father-in-law Huang Jiandu had climbed over the guardrail, and after running along the opposite lane through the collapse position, he waved his hand while going against the road, and in order to stop the car, Huang Jiandu even knelt in the middle of the fast lane.
Rao's wife cried.
Fortunately, one car stopped in front of Huang Jiandu, followed by two and three......
Rao's father-in-law later recalled, "At that time, some people (who haven't seen the landslide) scolded me, 'You're going to die', but I can't help it, I don't do this, I guess they really won't stop." ”
At the other end of the collapse, Rao's wife was not idle. Seeing that the injured person climbed up and was covered in blood and walked staggeringly, she called Rao Yi to help check on him, Rao Yi had previously studied first aid knowledge at the health school, and the couple guided the injured person to their car to rest.
Later, another adult climbed up with a two-year-old child in his arms, the child may have internal bleeding, Rao asked his wife to catch the child, put her daughter's school uniform on the ground, and everyone held an umbrella and waited for rescue.
In Rao's words, the family's idea at the time was simple, "because God helped us escape, we also have to help others."
For the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, Rao's family still had palpitations. "When my daughter came back, she said, "It's terrible, my father-in-law didn't sleep that night, my mother-in-law didn't sleep much, and my mother didn't sleep until the next night." ”
Rao still felt a little regretful.
"At that time, if the car hadn't broken down completely and I couldn't move, I turned the car around and turned on the headlights, which might have been more eye-catching than a flashlight and could have stopped the car faster. ”
"If we had a different approach, wouldn't we have been able to save more people?"
Sideways stop warning
"It's the first time I feel so close to death. Falling off a few cars, listening to the loud noise, tears couldn't help but fall. Wang Xiangnan's wife recorded this in the WeChat circle of friends.
Wang Xiangnan from Puyang, Henan Province, is a truck driver. In the early morning of May 1, the couple drove a refrigerated truck to transport grapes from Kunming to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, as usual. They arrived at the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway a little later than Rao's family.
Wang Xiangnan's navigation when he passed by the place of the incident
At that time, the navigation had already shown that the route was "red all the way".
"I thought it was a traffic jam, but then I saw a few cars going in the wrong direction. Someone said that the road ahead was broken, so I got out of the car to find out what was going on. Wang Xiangnan recalled to reporters.
He saw a number of cars piled up in a pit, some of which were on fire and there was an explosion. The red firelight was particularly dazzling in the thick of the night.
It's a holiday, and even at night, there are no fewer cars on the road. "My first instinct was to stop the oncoming cars and not let them rush down again. ”
Wang Xiangnan decisively turned the truck and stopped in the middle of the road, when they were about 200 meters away from the landslide.
The driver, who was in the rear with an unknown situation, honked his horn several times to signal him to move the car out of the way. Wang Xiangnan and his wife explained one by one. After learning the reason, some car owners got out of the car together to help explain the situation to the car coming from behind. ”
Subsequently, fire trucks arrived at the scene. "I quickly moved the car for them, and the firefighters cleared the ramp before I drove away. ”
Wang Xiangnan said that he only learned afterwards that it was a landslide, and after his family learned about it, they recognized his approach.
"I want to be worthy of those words. On the refrigerated truck driven by Wang Xiangnan is labeled "Chinese retired soldier", "As a retired soldier, my instinctive reaction is to save people."
Wang Xiangnan's wife was still a little afraid: "My husband blamed me for going to the service area to rest at first, and now I should thank me for not driving to the collapse so quickly." Thankfully, the slow drive gave us the opportunity to stop a lot of cars behind. ”
A photo of Wang Xiangnan and his wife
Retrograde rescue
After the landslide, some people rushed down to save people regardless of the danger, and Liu Yongjin was one of them.
He usually drives for his boss at a technology company in Shenzhen. At about 18 o'clock on April 30, I set off from Shenzhen and went to Yongding's hometown in Longyan, Fujian.
It usually takes six and a half hours to get home, but this time, it was not until 2:30 a.m. on May 1 that he arrived at the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway.
Liu Yongjin, who has been a driver for almost 20 years, found that there was a "strange phenomenon" ahead. "There was a car going in the wrong direction, and I felt that something might be in front of me, so I got out of the car when I was about 100 meters close to the scene. ”
He stood at a safe distance and looked underneath the collapsed section. "At a glance, you can see that more than a dozen cars have fallen, and some cars are on fire. In my experience, if you catch fire, it will definitely explode. He quickly shouted to the people below, reminding the people who had escaped from the car to move to safety.
He then climbed over the guardrail and walked down the slope to save people.
Liu Yongjin
"At first, I thought I could go down through the gutter, but when I looked again, the thatch was growing so tall that I was slippery under my feet, probably because I was nervous, and my legs were shaking. I turned around and shouted at the crowd and asked if anyone was going with me. Liu Yongjin recalled to reporters.
A young man in white clothes and black pants walked out. The two of them played with flashlights and grabbed the thatch forward. "It took about five or six minutes to explore the road" and they finally reached the place where the vehicle had collapsed.
"Kid first!" he saw a little girl standing next to the car, frightened. The two carried her to the emergency lane on the side of the road, then turned back and picked up a little boy.
At this time, the guy may have choked on the smoke and proposed to rest and take a break. Liu Yongjin returned to the scene and rescued four other people.
One of the adults told him that his ribs might have been broken. I couldn't hold him, but luckily he was able to grab something and use his strength, so I helped him climb up slowly. When the last person was rescued, the other party's foot was already injured and bleeding, and he was supported by Liu Yongjin.
Ten meters behind them, explosions continued to explode, and the flames soared into the sky.
"I really didn't think about it at the time, I yelled twice, and I got out of the guard at once. It's scary to think about it now, but it was a completely instinctive reaction at the time. Liu Yongjin told reporters.
When the rescue team arrived, he returned to his car and poured several bottles of water.
It wasn't until about 5 o'clock in the morning that Liu Yongjin returned to his hometown in Yongding. He told his father: "I did a good deed and saved a few people. ”
There was also blood on his right shoulder, which had been left by the injured little girl lying on top of him.
In the early hours of the morning, someone was rescued, and more people were rescued after turning around.
Liu Yongjin said that the guy in white clothes and black pants who saved people with him was finally found, and he was the "post-00s" Cai Xuanda.
Cai Xuanda
"At the last moment, an uncle knelt down and stopped my car. After getting out of the car, I was shocked by what I saw in front of me and immediately joined the rescue team. Cai Xuanda said that as a retired soldier, he did what he could. "Didn't disgrace the old company!"
After getting out of the car, Cai Xuanda and several people checked the situation at the collapse site. There were several injured people on the half-slope not far from the roadside, and one of the uncles wanted to climb up, but couldn't do it, so Cai Xuanda and several other people worked together to pull him up.
Subsequently, he and Liu Yongjin climbed to the landslide to save people with their hands and feet.
Two strangers who had never met before, with tacit understanding and courage, transferred several injured people, and only learned each other's names after watching the news.
Cai Xuanda's parents learned about the incident from their son, and they were very shocked, not only proud of their son's relay to save people, but also told him to thank the old man who knelt down to stop the car in person.
Between these strangers, simple kindness flows. It was only later that Cai Xuanda learned from his mobile phone that the "uncle" who knelt down and stopped him at that time was Rao Yi's father-in-law Huang Jiandu.
On the evening of May 3, Liu Yongjin had finished his vacation and returned to Shenzhen from his hometown in Longyan, Fujian, "After driving for eight and a half hours, there was still a little traffic jam on the road." ”
Because of the rescue deeds were widely reported by the media, in just a few days in his hometown, he became a local "celebrity", and even classmates who had not been in touch for many years called to greet him, and the company's boss and colleagues praised him in the WeChat group.
Liu Yongjin repeatedly mentioned to reporters that "it was a completely instinctive reaction at that time." Born in 1988, he is the father of two children, the eldest son is 13 years old and is in the sixth grade of primary school, and the youngest son is 11 years old and is still in the fourth grade. His wife did not go back to Shenzhen with him, but stayed in her hometown to take care of the elderly and children.
"My family took this matter with a normal heart and told me to pay attention to safety outside. Liu Yongjin told reporters that he also views "famous" in this way, "There is a saying that says, don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself."
Recalling the incident on May 3, Rao Yi admitted that these days when he sat with his family and talked about that night, the details gradually became real and clear, "Now we are all thinking about whether we can save more people if we used other ways at that time, but this is also unpredictable."
In the past two days, the injured who were rescued by Rao's family in the early morning said that they would take the rescued children to thank the warm-hearted Tai Po villagers. Rao's daughter, who is in junior high school in Shenzhen, is also very proud of her relatives' righteous deeds: "My grandfather is a superhero!"
Rao told reporters that he hoped to get out as soon as possible, and the road was still ahead.
Source: CCTV