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Accident in Hamburg: Drunk man overrun by train - but injured only on the upper arm

2019-11-17T12:38:01.254Z


A 21-year-old man has apparently fallen asleep in a track bed in Hamburg and was overrun by a regional train. However, he was very lucky and survived with injuries to the upper arm.



Glunpflich came from a young man who was overrun in Hamburg by a train. The 21-year-old was injured only on the upper arm. The police said in the Hanseatic city on Sunday. Accordingly, the locomotive driver of a regional express arriving from Kiel had seen the apparently sleeping man on the tracks at Dammtor station and had initiated another emergency braking.

Nevertheless, the drunkard was overrun. He suffered several open injuries to the upper arm. After he was approached by the train crew, the Pinneberger but could get up and then sat down in the regional express. The alerted Federal Police found the injured there. He was taken to hospital with an ambulance and operated on. The man had not sustained life-threatening injuries, it was said.

The police took the incident as an opportunity to warn again about the dangers of railway facilities. "The stay in the tracks is prohibited," said the Federal Police Inspectorate.

Source: spiegel

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