Chinese train driver loses leg saving elderly woman ‘frozen’ on the tracks
Locomotive engineer says he has ‘no regrets’ and would do it again if it meant saving someone’s life
A train driver in southwest China who lost a leg saving an elderly woman who’d wandered onto the track said he has “no regrets”, according to local media.
Xu Qiankai, a 29-year-old locomotive engineer, said the incident happened on Thursday afternoon as he was moving a train to a service depot at Rongchang station, Chongqing Evening News reported on Sunday.
Although the area was clearly marked with “No Trespassing” signs, Xu said he looked up and saw a woman on the track in front of him.
But when he pulled the emergency brake and blasted his horn to warn her, she just froze, he said.
When Xu realised that she wasn’t going to get out of the way, he leapt from his cab and ran towards her, the report said.
