ENGLAND - An 18-year-old man in a drunken stupor on railroad tracks while a train drove over him, passing inches above his head. A bit later the teenager woke up and walked away.
The inebriated young man was lucky to pass out length-wise on the tracks before an 82-ton motorized train hurtled over him at 120 kph (75 mph). Less than 20 centimeters (7.8") separate the bottom of the locomotive from the railroad ties.
"I don't remember a thing," the man told the daily VG. A small cut on the chin, a few scrapes on one arm and a hole in the front of his shirt are the only visible signs from his encounter with a passenger train.
Train personnel said it was a miracle that the youngster emerged from the incident with hardly a scratch. They feared the worst when they suddenly saw a body lying on the tracks but had no possibility to stop the train.
They should have....
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thegrandpatron
(05.03.2002 12:09:09 PM EST)
...blown the horn, then he would of raised up and got decappatated.
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