{"id":485,"date":"2017-10-07T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/07\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T09:16:40","slug":"hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Loses Leg After Saving Woman Who Froze On Train Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A train driver in southwest China who lost a leg saving an elderly woman who\u2019d wandered onto the track said he has \u201cno regrets\u201d, according to South Morning China Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A train driver in southwest China who lost a leg saving an elderly woman who\u2019d wandered onto the track said he has \u201cno regrets\u201d, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs\"> South Morning China<\/a> Post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FteKxGWJOkMe8fxGxMF2XjZNCyfu?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"1.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"343\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/#Xu_Qiankai_recovers_in_hospital_after_having_the_lower_part_of_his_right_leg_amputated_Photo_Handout\" title=\"Xu Qiankai recovers in hospital after having the lower part of his right leg amputated. Photo: Handout\">Xu Qiankai recovers in hospital after having the lower part of his right leg amputated. Photo: Handout<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/#Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News\" title=\"Photo: Chongqing Evening News\">Photo: Chongqing Evening News<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/#The_hero_and_the_elderly_woman_on_the_train_tracks_Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News\" title=\"The hero and the elderly woman on the train tracks.\u00a0 Photo: Chongqing Evening News\">The hero and the elderly woman on the train tracks.\u00a0 Photo: Chongqing Evening News<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/#Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News-2\" title=\"Photo: Chongqing Evening News\">Photo: Chongqing Evening News<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks\/#Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News-3\" title=\"Photo: Chongqing Evening News\">Photo: Chongqing Evening News<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Xu_Qiankai_recovers_in_hospital_after_having_the_lower_part_of_his_right_leg_amputated_Photo_Handout\"><\/span>Xu Qiankai recovers in hospital after having the lower part of his right leg amputated. Photo: Handout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Xu Qiankai, 29, was driving a train on the outskirts of Chongqing on Thursday afternoon when he spotted an elderly woman crossing the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Although the area was clearly marked with \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d signs, Xu said he looked up and saw a woman on the track in front of him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlCQA1DOIyjAgohRpeSmP-zxDnUY?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"22.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"441.75\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News\"><\/span>Photo: Chongqing Evening News<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Xu pulled the emergency brake and sounded the horn, but the 68-year-old woman froze on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fu-JJmVygDGk0Z-xk4NmrpFo2lTl?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"3.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"331.3125\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_hero_and_the_elderly_woman_on_the_train_tracks_Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News\"><\/span>The hero and the elderly woman on the train tracks.\u00a0 Photo: Chongqing Evening News<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As the locomotive was being taken for service it wasn\u2019t coupled to any <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/carriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carriages<\/a> or wagons and was moving quite slowly, so Xu was able to get in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>The hero jumped off the train and ran towards the woman. He was able to push the woman to safety but he couldn&#8217;t get out of the way of the locomotive in time.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly he wasn\u2019t quite fast enough. Although he managed to reach the woman and push her to safety, before he could save himself, the wheels of the oncoming train ran over his right leg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FqPhGkiRLT8jfRfpMEx_9LLDxjzx?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"44.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"441.75\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News-2\"><\/span>Photo: Chongqing Evening News<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Xu was rushed to hospital, but due to the severity of the injury, doctors were unable to save his leg and were forced to amputate it from just above the knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost a leg, but [saved] a life,\u201d the former military man was quoted as saying through his tears. \u201cIf life repeated itself, I would do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who wasn\u2019t named in the report, visited Xu in hospital. At his bedside, she dropped to her knees and thanked him repeatedly for saving her life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fhzz3Lx9S79xzzYSLB6vBxOH9Kfm?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"5.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"904.1666666666666\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Chongqing_Evening_News-3\"><\/span>Photo: Chongqing Evening News<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"GIC.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A train driver in southwest China who lost a leg saving an elderly woman who\u2019d wandered onto the track said he has \u201cno regrets\u201d, according to South Morning China Post. &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3662,60,353,3686,306,29,34],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3662","tag-china","tag-e-china-cities","tag-hero-loses-leg-after-saving-woman-who-froze-on-train-tracks","tag-hiredchina","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25906,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/25906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}