On September 30, 2011 at approximately 7:20 p.m., the train carrying 191 passengers from Oakland to Bakersfield (with stop at Stockton) collided with a truck at a rural crossing east of Brentwood in the Contra Costa County. Majority of the passengers were due to arrive at Stockton Amtrak station at 7:30 p.m. that evening. There were 37 passengers and two crew members that suffered “minor to moderate” injuries. My little sister was one of the passengers inside the train car that collided with the truck and was one of the few passengers in that train car that were unhurt. Almost all the passengers wanted to get off the train immediately but were all told they had to stay on the train. My sister, along with the other passengers, was forced to stay at this crash site for the next five hours. My friends and I drove to the train crash location to try to take my sister and were told that no one was allowed to get off the train by the police officers.
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| Picture Courtesy of an Amtrak passenger from the crash |
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| Picture Courtesy of an Amtrak passenger from the crash |
The train finally left the crossing in the Contra Costa County at around 1:10a.m. and arrived in Stockton around 1:40 a.m.
Despite the terrible disaster that occurred that day, my sister was still able to act with the Confucian ethics that had been instilled in her mind. I will only name some of the ethics she applied in her actions. First, when the crash occurred, my sister offered her seat to the elderly and those who are senior to her. Secondly, she let the people who didn’t have a phone (especially the elderly) to make phone calls from her phone to contact their loved loves. She treated the elderly members of the train as if they were her own grandparents and gave them the due respect because of the Confucian concept of the “extension of the family.”
That's terrible.
ReplyDeletewow, your poor sis! good thing she's ok!
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