UBON RATCHATHANI — A Grab rider and two other Good Samaritans have been praised online after they made a split-second rescue to stop a young woman from falling off the 200 Years Bridge over the Mun River.
The incident was shared in the Facebook group “Grab car & Grab food Ubon Ratchathani – Ubon Grab Drivers” by user Thanakorn Chansuk, who posted footage showing the dramatic rescue.
According to the footage, a woman was about to fall from the bridge when the Grab rider, his female passenger and another unidentified man abandoned their vehicles and rushed to grab her, managing to pull her to safety just moments before she could fall.
The footage was widely shared by local pages in Ubon Ratchathani, prompting an outpouring of praise for the three Good Samaritans.
The reporter later contacted 19-year-old Thanakorn Chansuk, the Grab rider who recorded the incident on his helmet camera.
Thanakorn said he had just picked up a passenger in the old town area and was riding toward the fountain roundabout when he noticed something unusual on the bridge. From a distance, it appeared that someone was standing by the railing.
He slowed down and approached, only to find the woman had removed her shoes and placed her mobile phone and shoulder bag nearby. She had climbed onto the bridge railing and almost fall.
Thanakorn immediately stopped his motorcycle and ran toward her, grabbing her arm. His female passenger shouted at the woman to stop.
At the same time, another man who was driving behind them stopped his motorcycle and ran over to help. He managed to grab the woman and pull her down just a split second before she fall.
After the woman was brought down from the railing, Thanakorn said he did not question her about what had happened. His female passenger stayed beside her and hugged her to provide comfort.
The other Good Samaritan returned to check on his motorcycle, which had fallen by the roadside, before calling police. Officers later arrived and took the woman from the bridge to safety.
Thanakorn said his helmet camera captured the entire incident.
Based on his initial observations, Thanakorn believed the woman may have been dealing with accumulated stress and keeping her problems to herself, even though she might appear cheerful on the outside.
He said he was extremely relieved that he and the other Good Samaritan had arrived in time.
“If we had not reached her in time, she would certainly have fell,” Thanakorn said.
He added that he was happy to have helped save another person’s life and wanted to remind the woman that her family still cared about her.
“She is still young. I hope she finds a way to relieve her stress and takes time to think things through,” he said.
Thanakorn also said similar incidents had reportedly occurred at the bridge several times over the past one to two months, with around one or two cases at a time.
He said he felt saddened whenever he heard about such incidents and admitted that if they had failed to reach the woman in time, the scene would likely have stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Police have since contacted the woman’s relatives from another district, who came to take her home. Authorities have not disclosed what led to the incident.
