Fire corporal Park Jun-hyeon held on to the truck driver and did not dare switch places with other rescue workers out of fear that they may lose the driver. - The Korea Herald/ANN
SEOUL: An emergency rescue worker saved a truck driver from a 11m fall by holding on to the driver for 45 minutes with his bare hands, officials of the Gyeongbuk Fire Service Headquarters said on Thursday (Nov 28).
The accident occurred on Nov 27 at around 9.29am (8.29am Singapore time) on a bridge on a section of the Joongang Expressway in Poongsang-eup, Andong, North Gyeongsang Province.
A truck slid on the snow-covered road and collided with the railings, the impact of which almost threw the driver in his 60s out of his seat and off the bridge.
Minutes later, fire corporal Park Jun-hyeon, 34, and other members of the 119 emergency rescue service in Poongsan, arrived on the scene, and found the driver hanging perilously from what remained of the driver’s seat.
The damage to the truck made it impossible for the workers to open its doors, and the rescue workers did not have sufficient space to conduct a rescue operation. All Park could do was make sure the driver did not fall by holding on to his hands.
Park held the driver by his hands for 45 minutes, and did not dare switch places with other workers out of fear that they may lose the driver. He calmed the panicked driver while holding on to him until other rescue workers brought a vehicle with an aerial platform to rescue the driver.
The driver was rescued at around 10.30am. - The Korea Herald/ANN
