Chinese truck driver praised for helping reduce casualties after road collapse

Rescue workers at the site of a collapsed section of a highway on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, southern China’s Guangdong Province (Wang Ruiping/Xinhua via AP)

A Chinese truck driver has been praised for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people.

Wang Xiangnan was driving on Wednesday along the road in Guangdong province, a vital economic hub in southern China.