(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-01-23 11:07

Yang Yingjun, a 30-year-old woman from the countryside in Hunan Province, central China, saved five children in an accident, but lost her own daughter.

Yang and her husband drive their daughter Huang Dan and several other students in a minibus to Xiang Meng primary school.

On September 12 last year, Yang’s husband pulled the minibus up to the school. When she led the students to cross the street, a truck lost control and drove towards them. “Run!” Yang shouted, and threw herself to the stunned children.

She pushed five pupils away from danger. But when she turned to see what happened to the other children, the truck hit her. She immediately lost consciousness.

According to witnesses, it was rush hour when the street was crowded with pupils. Her accident with the truck prevented many more injuries to the children.

Yang’s legs were badly hurt, with a palm-sized tear in her right leg, her calves were swollen and her ankle bones didn’t seem aligned. As she was carrying a four-month-old fetus, Yang could not be X-rayed, so doctors could not diagnose her internal injuries and only treat her external ones.

When she became conscious again in the hospital, she was told that thanks to her, five children were safe, preventing more injuries. But her six-year-old daughter, Huang Dan, died in the accident.

Despite her daughter’s death, Yang said she didn’t regret what she did.