The M25 motorway, on which the incident occurred.
(CNN) -
A woman fell from a car onto a busy motorway when she was leaning out of the passenger window to record Snapchat video, UK police reported.
The woman, whose name has not yet been released, was hanging from the vehicle on the M25 motorway in south London, Surrey police posted on Twitter.
"She was lucky not to have died or been seriously injured," they said.
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On his account, the police posted a photo of the passenger's open window, along with the hashtag #nowords.
The front seat passenger was hanging out the car whilst filming a SnapChat video along the # M25.
She then fell out the car and into a live lane.
It is only by luck she wasn't seriously injured or killed. # Nowords
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- Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK (@SurreyRoadCops) September 19, 2020
When a user asked if the officers had explained the dangers of these actions to the woman, the police responded: "Every time we get a chance we do it, but they realized it before we mentioned it to them!"
Some 259 people around the world have died while taking selfies between 2011 and 2017, according to a study published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
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The researchers found that the majority of selfie deaths occurred in India, followed by Russia, the United States and Pakistan.
Most of the victims were men (about 72%) and under the age of 30.
Last year, four members of the same family drowned in a dam in India after falling into the water while trying to take a selfie.
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