Yichang City, Hubei Province, central China - July 9, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Surveillance footage showing flying iron pieces smashing through windshield of coach, hitting driver in head, driver managing to stop coach, lying on steering wheel
2. Surveillance footage showing passengers' reaction when accident happened
3. Surveillance footage showing flying iron pieces smashing through windshield of coach, coach being stopped in emergency lane
4. Surveillance footage showing passenger checking driver's condition
5. Surveillance footage showing passengers getting off coach
6. Surveillance footage showing driver's face bleeding, driver getting off coach
7. Broken windshield of coach
8. Pieces of broken brake drum
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Fei, coach driver:
"At the moment I was thinking that I must try to stop the vehicle on the emergency lane. After all, there were passengers on the vehicle."
10. Police officer at site, pieces of broken brake drum on ground

A passenger coach driver has saved all the passengers on board by acting calmly after being hit by two flying iron pieces that smashed through the windshield of the coach on an expressway in central China's Hubei Province.

The coach, carrying 16 passengers, was going from Yichang City to Dangyang, a county-level city in Yichang, when suddenly two iron pieces smashed through its windshield and hit the driver in the head at around 09:00 on July 9.

Surveillance footage caught by cameras installed on the coach shows that the impact almost left the vehicle out of control, but the driver, despite the pain, held the steering wheel steadily and managed to stop the coach in the emergency lane.

Having saved all the 16 passengers from danger, the driver, named Wang Fei, could barely sit straight. He leaned on the steering wheel due to pain, with his face bleeding. Some passengers went to check the driver and called the police and the ambulance.

Wang was later sent to a hospital for treatment.

At the hospital he said what was on his mind when the accident happened was to try to stop the vehicle on the emergency lane for the safety of the passengers.

Police officers at the site found the iron pieces and identified them as parts of a broken brake drum that must have fallen off another vehicle.