To the people commenting and complaining about others 'spoiling' the video, please take a moment to realise that this happened to someone real and impacted their life heavily. It feels as though you guys don't have any sort of empathy and continue to treat such cases as fictional stories. Not only is it insensitive, it is also disheartening.

It’s insane that she only got $190,000! She will have lifelong health needs and care needs. Her entire life has been changed.

I cried when she said her husband's custom ringtone was helping her hold on. She could feel her husband's support.

Imagine your train destroys a person's body and all they ask is compensation and you say it's unreasonable. That's disgusting

“i thought about self exiting, but i couldn’t even physically do it” that really hit, there was really nothing she could do.

New fear unlocked, what do you mean a trap door on a fucking train??? This fall was likely 1 or 2 sec and she lost everything in those 2 seconds 💔💔

Is there a GoFundMe for this woman? She needs WAY more money than that. It’s pathetic pocket change. She’ll fly through that money with those disabilities. Such an injustice.

It is INSANE how 2 seconds can change a person's life

it angers me how the courtroom people and the train company staff can sleep well at night knowing that they literally robbed a woman of her normal life. the courtroom people COULD'VE made her life at least a little better by awarding her and obligating the train company to pay her the compensation she wants but they didn't.

“No one goes missing in a train.” Someone hasnt read enough Agatha Christie..

$1.5M wasn't even that big of an ask for someone who had a permanent life altering and life threatening experience, (you know, lost 3 LIMBS) due to negligence which is undeniably the train company's fault, and they gave her basically nothing! She almost fucking DIED and they gave her $190,000?! I am utterly appalled by the flop of a courtroom that must've been to look at this poor woman with half a leg and one arm in the face, and tell her all she's getting is $190,000 for almost dying from something that should never even have been a risk in the first place. I feel like here (in Australia), or even in the US, that would have been an EASY $10M lawsuit. Probably more.

There is another disastrous story with a train crash in Greece at Tempi last year where dozens of young people were killed and the government tried to cover it and put the blame on the train driver. And of course the victims’ families got little to no compensations! It would be interesting to make a video on that too so that their story is heard.

This is such a devastating case, but her determination to drag herself out of those train tracks and her phone ringtone helping her it was like her husband was there bought me to tears pls

A FUCKING TRAP DOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLE OF A PASSENGER TRAIN. Company says "There is NOTING wrong.". I am SO happy for this lady for having the strength to insist to police to preserve the crime scene and to go and file a lawsuit. The only purpose of it's existence is sheer laziness on behalf of the company employees, it is the company's fault.

New fear unlocked😭 Poor woman, I can only imagine what she went through...

"That amount is ridiculous, it's never been done before"... Well I'd guess falling through a trap door in a moving train, losing 2 full limbs and half of a 3rd, dragging yourself off the tracks using your remaining mangled limb, then lifting yourself up enough to get attention from another train speeding by, doing all of this while you've lost enough blood that you probably should have bled to death, and somehow managing to survive and appear in front of a court had never been done before either... It's absolutely sickening that this family is left to handle this immense financial responsibility on their own. Hell, the amount she asked for likely wouldn't have even been enough to cover all of her immediate and future needs, and they give her such a tiny fraction of that... Beyond outrageous.

Not even $200,000 for losing THREE limbs is just inconceivably cruel. I bet her hospital stay alone was that much. I know not every healthcare system is like the US's but theres no way that was cheap. I hope she and her family continue to heal from this truly traumatic experience.

The ringtone part brought me to tears. If her husband hadn't kept calling her, and she hadn't heard their song, I have a feeling she wouldn't have made it

In the court they couldn’t look at her because they would see how heartless their decision is and they dont wanna face the reality of their cruelty

I was appalled she asked for so little, and horrified with what she received. Its atrocious places can make so much money and be so greedy when they ruin a life.

$190K?!?!?!? Wtf?! What a 🤬 slap in the face. What a horrific story. This is devastating.

What a strong woman and loving husband. She deserves millions!!! Crappy train company!!!

That train company should be financially responsible for her for the rest of her life. They destroyed any sense of normality for herself and I hope she finds a happy new normal in the future but it should be funded by that company.

This video made me cry so hard my head hurts. This poor, brave, innocent woman went through so much. It hurts so so much to know she had to deal with all this.

that’s so unfair , she deserves everything and more for what she went through i hope she lives a good life and finds some comfort knowing she is so loved .

Rotten Mango Team: Let’s start a GOFUNDME for Gia?!

Ohhh the level of misogyny, ableism, and pure evil is unbelievable

I am crying for Gia right now... I've travelled dozens of times in China using these trains, the standing ticket, the hard seat ticket, all of them. I've been a foreign girl travelling solo all the time in those trains. The thought of something so normal to me and everyone in China, becoming so dangerous and deadly to one person is truly heartbreaking and terrifying. I can't even imagine what she went through, but I really admire her will power to survive and get justice. I have no words... I just wish her and her family more strength, and I hope that somehow, her life will be as painless and happy as possible... I wish there was a donation link, bringing awareness to this situation is important, but I wish we could help her more.

as a disabled person, i appreciate that this story didn't have a traditional "happy ending." what jia went through was a level of trauma so few will understand - the fairest way to share her story is to do so honestly, without sugarcoating her pain to assuage our discomfort. i extend my compassion to her and her family as they navigate the many new normals ahead of them. 💙 thank you as always stephanie and rm team for bringing important stories to our feeds. your hard work is so appreciated!

I cannot even imagine how much pain that woman had to go though. And the company didn't even give her the compensation for the recovery. So cruel!

Those in the court and the train company members who fought proper compensation should be shamed by the public.

im never complaining again

I cried at the part when she tried to stay alive for those whom she loves and love her. So sad...

Man, I don't know which is worse, kidnapped by some organ trafficking gang or just a freak accident by the worst possible train design ever.

Humans are truly incredible. The determination of that woman

Accountability is the hardest thing for companies to do! It’s most unfortunate that we have no real way to actually counteract this!

I have never seen a woman with so much resilience and the ability to survive. As a nursing student is is insane how she lived after all of this

What a horrific accident. She should have been compensated more than 1.5M. The mental and physical anguish...I can't imagine.

This is so horrific, and the “compensation” is disgraceful and disrespectful!!! They spit in her face on top of everything, they need to be SHUT DOWN!!! Pay her what she is owed and shut them down!!! Is there some way to donate to help?!

i just have to say. stephanies way of explaining the phantom limb is so perfect that shes even better than most of my professors. she has a way of perfectly conveying an idea without being too simple or too complicated anddd while maintaining 100% accuracy. love her!!

49:54 that's so dumb. Why would they do that? Create a false floor in the middle of the aisle?? I'm surprised this hasn't happened to more people.

Wow. $190k is A spit in the face. That's absolutely Awful. That surely didn't cover medical cost.

It's good that Stephanie ended this on a gloomy note because fok them. No one can gloss over how painful, devastating, and inhumane Jia went over and over and over to use it as some inspirational story except herself.

Off topic, but Mrs. Mango with blue eyes is too powerful 😭

The court ruling in her case is such an injustice!! The suffering that woman has faced is unimaginable! My husband lost his entire leg (including hip) nearly 40 years ago in a workplace accident in Texas. He was between two semi trucks piggy backing each other, making adjustments, when a fellow employee unknowingly dropped the truck on him. He shouldn't have survived, as it nearly sheared off his lower body. They were able to save one leg by pinning it back together. He spent a year in the hospital and rehab, turning 21 in the hospital. I've heard Texas is the worst state in the US for workers compensation. The court ruling offered him ONLY $10,000 OR lifetime medical. Thankfully he chose the medical, which has been a lifesaver as he ages. He still deals with phantom pains to this day, though they thankfully occur less often. Sometimes he'll "feel" his phantom leg twisted and bent up over his head, or in other odd angles. It may last for hours or even days. He's a remarkable man with amazing willpower to function as best he can. My heart just aches for this woman given the extreme loss she's suffered! My prayers are with her that she's able to carve out a life of contentment, despite the challenges she faces, and that her family can remain strong in the supportive care she'll always need.

My husband became a paraplegic at age 43 when the board he was walking on while building a pole barn split apart & he fell 16 feet, landing in a sitting position, causing his vertebrae to essentially pancake or compress. He had 3 vertebral compression fractures at T4, T8 & T10 & 1 burst fracture at L1 that send bone shards into his spinal cord, not completely severing it, but causing enough damage (turned the sounal cord into hamburger basically) tgat it was functionally a complete SCI. We decided, after almost 2 years & beginning to see the financial devastation & future medical costs we were facing, to sue the lumber company that nanufactured the board & the business that sold the lumber. 1st, we had to figure out WHO had manufactured the board bc there were boards from several lumber companies. Well, WE didn't figure it out. It was investigators & lawyers who did based on the stamps on the boards & where they were in the constructed building. Turns out it was a MAJOR lumber company. Arguably the largest in the U.S. ( maybe, not sure) & their grading practices were abysmal, leading the board in question being misgraded. The company refused to settle prior to the trial, calling it a nuisance suit even though the mitigation attorney advised them to. The business that sold the lumber, however, DID come to an agreement with us that would guarantee that even if we lost, we would get some $, which frankly any amount would've been a blessing & if we won, we would settle for policy limits, even if we were awarded more. Well, it turns out the big lumber corporation was kind of shady & we won. We got the smaller settlement from the lumber yard that sold the pallet. The big company appealed, lost, tried to con us into settling in a way that would mean that we would owe them $1 million (yeah, seriously), appealed, lost, appealed, lost & then 8 yesrs after we won the lawsuit, finally settled for far more than tge initial award nc of 8 years of interest. Sadly, by this time, my husband was in End-Stage renal failure & on dialysis. He would live only about another 1 1/2 years after we settled with the ahole lumber company. We had divided the award in half, with half going to our kids when he died, so that was a comfort to us both that they would also be compensated for the devastation that this had caused our family. He's been gone over 4 years now & I try not to think of the lawyer for the corporation who dragged it out for years & then was replaced when the company was sold bc I feel so much anger at what a POS he is/was. One thing that came out of our lawsuit that made it all worth suing is that the company stopped the terrible grading process that had been producing over 2 million bad & misgraded boards per year, meaning potentially 2 million construction workers being killed or horrubly injured, & switched to computerized lazer grading. I'm an RN, so I was uniquely qualified to take care of my husband & this helped tremendously, but I was also working 12 hour shifts at the hospital & raising 4 kids, & no amount of $ is worth what our family, & especially my husband went thru & endured on a daily basis. Gia not receiving even a quarter of the compensation she needed & deserved makes me so angry on her behalf. That RR company was negligent & it's a miracle more people weren't injured or killed. I can tell you from our experience that it's a neverending, daily grind. Things that we all take for granted, Gia can no longer do. Her life is devastatingly forever altered & each day is a struggle for her & her family.

Thank you for not sugarcoating the outcome. I fully understand Gia (Xia? Not sure how to spell her name) I've been bedridden for over 20 years, in unimaginable pain that makes me dream of unaliveing myself And no sleeping pill helps to sleep. Even fentanyl can't cut the pain. It's pure misery and agony 24/7 It's not just people breathing on you that causes pain, or them touching your bed and not you. But just having someone infront of your door and entering the room causes more pain. Healthy people can't comprehend the amount of suffering. Even most very sick and terminally ill will never Experience such agony. Euthanasia should be a human right for people like us, of course only if it's with consent. It probably would be kinder for Gia to leave this earth . My greatest empathy and understanding is with her Thank you Mrs. Mango

There’s no amount of money enough for her, they should be kissing the floor she is in, and give her money for life for her and her entire family. This is so unfair. My love for her.

This is the realest story I’ve heard of survivors like this. It is raw, it is graphic and it is as horrible as you imagine it would be. I am horrified and heartbroken and am more aware of what they actually go through. No illusion of “everything will be okay in the end.” Thank you Stephanie. Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but I do hope and pray for Gia and her loved ones to find happiness in her new life. I cannot even begin to fathom the pain and the level of helplessness they’re going through.

Disgusting that they would give her so little money. I hope this case picks up more attention and people boycott this horrible train company. It's never too late to cancel bad corporations. She deserves proper compensation and the people in that area NEED to get mad over this.

This gave me a new fear of trains

This case is disgusting, I don't know how people can sleep sound at night knowing that nobody paid the price for their incompetence and ruining a woman's life

I’ve listened to so many of Stephanie’s stories, but this one truly scared me to my core. The feeling of hopelessness and imminent danger every second is pure torture.

And those POS that run that damn company, need to be in PRISON? We gotta spread her story more. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

I’m a double amputee and phantom pain is horrible

Thank you for existing and letting me have these videos I appreciate this much more than social media

We need to start a go fund me for her. It won't do anything, ANYTHING, to replace what she's lost, but hopefully it can help to some degree.

The fact that they wouldn't meet her eyes and STILL said that she was asking for too much ?!? Insane, have them fall there too, all of them, jfc how can so many people be responsable for it and responsable for giving her justice and just fail her so much and so- I don't have the words, I'm just glad she has support and can be with her family and is getting better

I don't know how you managed to retell a story as if you were there. Your memory and the similes captivate me. So very sad for this brave survivor. Thank you Stephanie for shining light on the gross negligence of that train company. Now known because of you.

Gia is beyond amazing. That train company is a disgrace.

She will never recover from this. Her mental state, her care, she needs round the clock care. The Train Co. should pay her millions. Don’t they have insurance to cover accidents ? 😢

This hit hard,my husband was in a airboat in the swap of south Louisiana and the boat hit something and over turned cut completely his lower right leg off by the prop with was a 4feet 4 blade prop.he thank God survived.i was 7months pregnant with our daughter so we named her faith bc we knew God would take care of us and He has.thank you for sharing this story.blessings to the family,prayers for her and all to heal physically and emotionally ❤

What the courts gave her is criminal. They should be MADE to look her in the eye and tell her that $190,000 is all she's worth. Corporations are criminals.

This is probably the most terrifying story Stephanie has ever told. Well done. I am now horrified to step onto trains, planes, busses, any type of heavy transportation machinery. I am so devastated to hear someone had to live through being run over by a 2000 ton train in motion 😱, and miraculously survive ( ! ) and now their quality of life is so low that they couldn't even self exit if they tried 😢

WAIT A MOMENT! Not only she didn't get the 1 million USD as nobody was jailed for that? People should be in jail for that now.

The part with her sister made me sick with horror. I'm so glad she was unsuccessful.

i enjoy your videos so much! thank you for making your viewers happy and giving contents constantly.

This is absolutely horrific! That poor woman is stuck in a living hell and to deprive her of any sort of proper compensation should be illegal. I remember years ago there was a rollercoaster crash over here in the uk and a young woman lost her leg and she was awarded a multimillion pound compensation.

Only 190k?! And she even have to beg for it? I really hate those money hungry companies, I couldn't even imagine the hell she has to went through just to be degraded like that. Really infuriating.

You are the best of the best " story teller" Every emotion that's needed in all your stories ....you guve 100%. Thank you..😂

1.5 mil is nothing Edit: fuck they didn't even give her that

I am really surprised that a high time attorney hasn’t fought for her

I'm no lawsuit expert but something tells me if this happened in the states she would have gotten 1 million dollars at the VERY least. Why didn't the courts grant her that? It's crazy to me.

This is so sad. The train company owes that woman millions. Even a skin graft is so incredibly painful and her resiliency is well epoch but words fail me just like the court system who failed to acknowledge the incompetency of the rail network. Thank you.

Did I already listen to your podcast on this case couple of days ago?Hell yes. Am I watching your youtube upload? Hell yes.

That woman is insanely strong. I dont think anyone in my life including myself could withstand such mental and physical conditions. I hate how unfairly gia was treated💔

How the hell does a tile in the floor just open and close!?!?!

It is crazy how she managed to stay alive.... I cannot imagine the pain, even a second.....

What do you mean that the money is too sky-high??? This literally pisses me off. That company should actually be closed down... All the expenses that she had with 190,000$?????? Apart from a go-fund me, I actually wish there was more that we could do for her.

Only a retired train conductor would put a winter coat on a deer and leave it on the tracks. An angry retired train conductor.

A sister so affected by what happened to her sister, to the point of laying on a railroad track to feel her sister’s , wow !!! Her husband’s commitment to her. I hope she is always surrounded by love.

Thank you for sharing such a sad story it was presented with so much care❤

I just found your channel and I love it! ❤

For me, this case was harder to listen to than a lot of the other depraved murders and horrific crimes caused by humans, because this just proves how quickly things can change in an instant and by accident

If there is a HOLE on a fucking train any sensible person will warn their passengers and put some signs, caution tape or even not decommission the train.

Each time i watch Steph's content at night, i always fall asleep within mins, and have to rewatch it the next morning/day, cos her voice is soooooo~ soothing! 😆 Keep all the amazing stories coming in, dearie! I'm a legit fan of Rotten Mango chanel! ❤️ (ok, rewatching this episode now)😌

Thank you!

Hi, I'm a big fan of you (top 3% on spotify :) ), and I was hoping you would consider covering the case about Zhang Weijie, which the the news anchor that was allegedly killed and is now the pregnant corpse in the bodies exhibit, it relates to my culture and I found it really intresting. Love u

oh my god this case is so terrifying. a random hole in the floor of a train?????

Had to listen to this one.... your contacts are freaking me out! lol They don't look bad but you are already very pretty! And talented and clearly smart. :)

I am so incredibly impressed and proud of the strength and courage Gia showed. It's amazing what love can do. Even when our bodies are broken our minds are trying to figure out a way to survive. I am not as strong as Gia and I am not comparing myself to her. This last year I spent 11 weeks in the hospital because I broke my back and ended up with Cauda Equina Syndrome. After several emergency surgeries I can now walk a little bit but I did spend several months laying on my back unable to turn myself and suffering from pressure ulcers. So I understand a teeny, tiny bit of what she went through. She is amazing!!

Can’t help but think of the children with amputated limbs and how much suffering they must be in on top of loosing their homes. This case helped me gain newfound empathy and understanding for those living with phantom limb syndrome. So well told, thanks Stephanie!

I can only assume that court was completely corrupt because how do you award such a small amount to someone whose life was so greatly altered by CLEAR actions taken by the train company! They cut corners! It wasn’t like it was a perfectly fine train and it was a freak accident, they made modifications that were not standard. They have to take responsibility! 100k is nothing to a corporation like that! They bought that judge… that is the only conclusion i can come up with without knowing more… there really is no justice in this world…

What injustice!! When she said she wanted to self exit but couldn’t even do it herself… that hurt my heart

I'm devastated and gutted for this poor woman and her family 😭

I find it crazy she wasn’t granted the money she requested because that was nothing compared to what she will have to forever deal with. What she got wouldn’t even cover the hospital bill if she was in America. But imagine all the financial burden they brought to her all because they put a trap door on a train wear hundreds of people walk through

I’m so angry that she wasn’t compensated for her pain, suffering, emotional distress, loss of wages and the sheer incompetence of the railway company for repurposing a train car and building a trap door in the floor that anyone could fall through. Whether it was on purpose or not, they were responsible for her injuries because they didn’t properly cover it. My mother was an amputee. She was type 1 diabetic. Watching her deal with the phantom pain was hard.

I have not finish the video yet, but this is an bittersweet rimender of a woman from my country named Daniela García. In 2002 she also fell from a moving train, when she was moving from one wagon to another. She lost her four limbs. But she did not lose consciouness, someone that was walking by found her and called the emergency servieces, she was rushed to the nearest health center in Rancagua iirc. At the time she was studying medicine, she was so young. The bittersweett comes after, she pulled through it all, got prothesis, got her degree, wrote the book "eligí vivir" (I chosed to live) and the last thing I heard she was studying at Harvard. Apunto a su perseverancia, su fuerzas y ganas de luchar contra la adversidad y ganar 💜 es una mujer muy seca.

what's with the guy who walked out of the restroom, staring straight at the husband's eyes smirking as he's walking out?

IDK why, I just got the "Murder on the Orient Express" flashbacks, when I read the title for the first time.