China mum dies shielding baby with her body in crash
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Just a piece of news in TNP that I wanted to share...
Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,179985,00.html?
RESCUERS expected the worst. What was left of a white Toyota car was scrap metal about half a metre in height.
On Saturday morning in Shenzhen, China, a driver had lost control of a lorry carrying soil. It then flipped sideways and landed on top of the Toyota next to it.
The impact crushed the car and soil was spilled all over it.
But a touching sight greeted the rescuers after the soil was scooped away and cranes lifted the lorry.
What they saw was a woman leaning over from the driver's seat to form a protective shield over her child who was sitting in the front passenger seat.
The mother, who is in her 30s, was dead.
But the baby girl, who's about a year old, was alive.
The mother probably bore the brunt of the crash. The air trapped between her body and her baby probably also helped save the girl from suffocating beneath the spilled soil.
As a result, the girl suffered only from minor wounds on her head, reported Shenzhen's Daily Sunshine newspaper.
Soil-laden lorry flips and lands on top of Toyota next to it. Mum shields child with her body. Cheers erupted among the rescuers as she was carried out of the wreck after the two-hour rescue operation. She was rushed to the hospital for a thorough checkup.
A woman in her 50s, who was in the back seat, also died.
A witness, known only as Mr Zhang told Daily Sunshine that it was about 10.50am. He rushed to the car after it had been crushed and shouted at its occupants.
He said he heard a female voice responding. But by the time the ambulance arrived, there was no longer any response.
The city's traffic police head, Mr Liu Fengjun, rushed to the site to direct rescue operations.
Initially, they had planned to tow the lorry away, but it was not feasible as it was too heavy. Rescue workers then thought of using cranes to lift the lorry up on both ends. But that idea was also abandoned as the bulk of the soil in the lorry may spill and bury the whole car instead.
In the end, they decided to remove the soil in the lorry first before lifting it up.
Those who had spades and hoes started digging away at the mountain of soil.
Rescuers lift lorry with crane, remove top part of car to find baby alive beneath mum's body. Mr Liu, who did not have any tools, jumped in to help, scooping with his bare hands, while shouting, 'Keep digging!'.
After 15 minutes, rescue workers managed to scoop away most of the soil. Then the cranes were activated.
At about 12.30pm, the cranes started to lift the lorry. It took them three attempts before they were successful.
Then, as rescue workers rushed in to the trapped occupants in the car, they hit another snag - a metal beam from the lorry was in the way. The hydraulic cutter was called in to remove it. Meanwhile, a rescue worker started shouting at the car's occupants. But there was still no response.
Then, after removing the top part of the car, they were greeted by the touching sight of the mother shielding the baby.
The lorry driver, a man in his 20s, had been detained to assist in investigations.
At about 1pm, traffic on the road resumed. The baby's father rushed to the hospital at about 2pm to take her home, but was too distraught to be interviewed.
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thanks for sharing
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parent's love, noble.
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Very sad.
Mei You Wu Si He Zhi Wo Xi Sheng De Mu Ai De Bang Zhu, Hai Zi De Xin Lin Jiang Shi Yi Pian Huang Mo.
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r.i.p
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As you can see,PRC girls can be life givers as well
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mothers indeed
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世上�有妈妈好。。。
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Originally posted by Xcert:
Just a piece of news in TNP that I wanted to share...
Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,179985,00.html?
hmm..what a great mother love, yet we go mothers here throwing baby down rubbish chute and drain here..haiz sad -
Originally posted by dragg:
世上�有妈妈好。。。
maternal instinct -
touching.
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Maybe the mother was just taking cover.......where else can she try to move to avoid the accident? *Looks at passenger seat.......got winking blinking cute daughter sitting there.....die le....aiyah...just try my luck lah.....either way I'll die a heroine death."
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Chinese rescuers... seem to have a habit of going into rescue operations without tools.
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Originally posted by parn:
Maybe the mother was just taking cover.......where else can she try to move to avoid the accident? *Looks at passenger seat.......got winking blinking cute daughter sitting there.....die le....aiyah...just try my luck lah.....either way I'll die a heroine death."
The fact remains that the woman died in the accident and the baby have just lost her mother. I don't think it's nice to make such a comment.
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Originally posted by Darkknighthuang:
The fact remains that the woman died in the accident and the baby have just lost her mother. I don't think it's nice to make such a comment.
Erm... Just ignore the retarded comments from this internet troll with a history of such low EQ behaviour.
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Well, what the mother did was noble. but I just sadden at how the child is forever robs of the mothers' love. imagine the stress now on the dad..speaking from a dad's point of view, this is so heart-breaking..