At around 2 a.m. on May 1, a landslide occurred in the Chayang section of the Meida Expressway in Guangdong. When he saw the unsuspecting cars continuing to move towards the landslide and sinking... 64-year-old Huang Jiandu could no longer sit still. He climbed over the highway guardrail, went around from the opposite side to the front of the collapse and knelt down to stop the vehicle from moving forward.
After the oncoming car suddenly braked, the driver rolled down the window and shouted to Huang Jiandu: "You don't want your life!" Huang Jiandu looked up and saw a man in his 30s. Huang Jiandu said: "I don't care what you say. , but you can't go any further, there's a landslide in front of you!"
The man suddenly stopped. A woman got out of the car quickly. She looked at Huang Jiandu, then walked forward and looked around - there was a dark "road" ahead, with rising fog in the depressions, and some falling objects. The car was on fire. A spark. Turning around, she immediately knelt down towards Huang Jiandu.
▲ Huang Jiandu (third from right) takes a photo with his family, including his son-in-law Rao Jin, second from left. According to the Meizhou Daily WeChat official account
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, the car lights disappeared inexplicably on the highway
“Afterwards, my wife asked me, was this going to kill my dad?” On the afternoon of May 3, Huang Jiandu’s son-in-law Rao Zhen told Red Star According to a news reporter, when he saw the landslide in front of him, he climbed up to the guardrail and raised his mobile phone flashlight, beckoning the vehicles ahead to stop, but to no avail.
But it was his move that "driven" his father-in-law Huang Jiandu to take the more "adventurous" action of forcing the vehicle to stop. Rao Jin said: "The tragedy has happened. What we can do is to reduce the losses and injuries."
According to Rao Jin, he, his wife and two children usually work and live in Shenzhen. They are accompanied by their mother. As well as his father-in-law and mother-in-law, but his father usually lives in his hometown in Qingxi Town. "My father-in-law and my father-in-law have not seen each other for two years, and they came back to reunite during the May Day holiday."
Rao Jin recalled to reporters that at 7:30 pm on April 30, he drove a 7-seater commercial vehicle. Including himself, the car carried 7 people on the expressway return from Longgang, Shenzhen. At about 1:56 a.m. the next day, they happened to cross the "life and death landslide" on the Chayang section of the Mei-Dalian Expressway.
▲The vehicle Rao Jin was driving
Rao Jin told the Red Star News reporter that the car was driving towards Meizhou and Fujian. When it reached the Chayang section of the Meizhou-Dalian Expressway, he saw darkness in the emergency lane and slow lane ahead.
"Subconsciously, I thought it was a newly repaired asphalt road, and there might be water on it." Thinking like this, Rao Jin took advantage of the situation and accelerated the car towards the fast lane. "Bang! Bang!" With the violent impact, the family members woke up, and her mother asked: "What's wrong? Did you doze off?" Rao Zhen said: "Mom, I didn't doze off, I just turned around in an emergency. "Bend."
After the car continued to move forward for about 300 meters, he realized something was wrong, and Rao Jin stopped the car between the emergency lane and the express lane. Before
got out of the car to check, his mother reminded him, "A car is coming. Pay attention to the car coming from behind." Rao Jin slowed down and let the car behind him pass first, but the car suddenly disappeared. Looking through the rearview mirror again, Rao Zhen discovered that another car was speeding towards him in the distance with its lights on, but as the lights disappeared, there was also the figure of the car and the subsequent sound of a crash.
After Rao Jin got out of the car, he found that the front and rear wheels on his passenger side had punctured tires. When I turned on the flashlight on my mobile phone, I found that about 2/3 of the wheels and chassis had rubbed against the ground. At this time, there were still cars that continued to come quickly, but soon, these cars also disappeared into the "darkness" ahead.
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"Kneel down and someone will stop." When
walked over to observe, Rao Jin was shocked. There was a landslide gap in the road in front of him. He told his family: "It's caved in!"
Inside the car, Rao Jin Four people, the father-in-law, mother-in-law, his wife and mother, immediately took out their mobile phones and walked towards the cave-in in front. Everyone turned on the mobile phone flashlight and shook it to remind oncoming vehicles to slow down and stop.
But the light of the mobile phone flashlight was too weak, and their car was "paralyzed" at the corner ahead, so it could not be effective.The four of them could only watch helplessly as one or two cars surged forward and fell into the landslide in front of them, accompanied by the rising heat.
"We were also worried, so we stayed back and continued to turn on the flashlight to signal the car to stop." Rao Zhen said, but the effect was not good. Then, he climbed to the middle guardrail of the collapse and continued to wave the flashlight of his mobile phone.
"I am 1.73 meters tall and my target is relatively obvious, but I still can't stop the vehicle from moving forward." Rao Jin recalled that at that time, a vehicle noticed his move and clicked on the brakes to slow down, but had no real intention to stop.
▲The landslide disaster scene at the Chayang section of the Mei-Da Expressway in Guangdong, taken on May 2 (drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ruiping
Huang Jiandu is less than 1.7 meters tall. Compared with Rao Jin, his effect of shaking his mobile phone to stop the vehicle from moving forward is even less effective. Finally, he simply climbed over the guardrail, bypassed the landslide from the other side of the highway, and then returned to the side of the landslide to stop the vehicle from moving forward.
However, Huang Jiandu found that the effect of stopping vehicles on the roadside was not good. One, two, three... he watched the cars continue to slide into the landslide. Below, there were cries for help following the collision of the cars. There were electric cars catching fire sporadically, but the car directly in front continued to run towards the landslide without any knowledge.
In desperation, Huang Jiandu stood in the middle of the highway and knelt down to force the moving vehicles to stop. "Only when I kneel down will someone stop." Huang Jiandu said.
Just like that, a total of four cars on the two-way carriageway were forced to stop by Huang Jiandu. In the front one, a middle-aged man who didn't know the truth was very angry. This was the scene at the beginning of this article.
"After learning the truth, an aunt got out of the car and knelt down to my father-in-law." Rao Zhen told the Red Star News reporter that the woman said to his father-in-law Huang Jiandu, "Thank you for saving our family."
Red Star News chief reporter Wei Xing
Editor He Xianfeng Editor Li Binbin
