SURAT THANI: Members of the public have heaped praise on the station master of Ban Song railway station in Wiang Sa district for saving the life of a 75-year-old woman with impaired hearing as she was about to be hit by a train on Sunday.
Security camera footage showed that at about 9.50am on Sunday, the woman was walking across a rail track while express train No.85 (Bangkok-Nakhon Si Thammarat) was entering the station. The woman was completely unaware that she was in danger.
When station master Thitipong Piripol saw what was happening, he ran out of his office and pushed the woman off the rail track moments before she would have been hit by the train. It was found later that the woman was deaf.
Nirut Maneephan, the State Railway of Thailand governor, was full of praise for Mr Thitipong for his heroic deed.
He asked all people to be careful and make sure it is safe before walking, riding or driving across a rail track.
A still CCTV image shows a station master (also inset) saving the life of an elderly woman in Surat Thani’s Wiang Sa district on Sunday. SRT photo