WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Footage shows the moment the teenage girl with her hood up walks into the path of the train in Russia and is knocked down – leaving terrified onlookers believing she had been killed
Footage captures moment student is knocked down by a train
A teenager amazingly walked away with virtually no injuries after being hit head-on by a train after she crossed the tracks wearing headphones.
Shocking footage shows the moment that the train strikes her, knocking her to the ground and running over her. The student was walking in the snow with a hood up in Russian city Sergiev Posad, 46 miles northeast of Moscow, when the incident happened.
She did not see or hear the approaching suburban train as she calmly walked slowly along the rail crossing but the clip shows the train heading her way in the distance. Reports say the driver slammed on his emergency brake but the graphic video shows the moment the train hits the teenager. She falls under the train, somehow lifting her head out of the way to avoid it being severed by the wheels.
Onlookers were convinced she had been killed – but after the train halted, she crawled out with only minor wounds, although her mother says she is suffering from shock. One report on the incident said: “A few moments later, in front of shocked eyewitnesses, the girl crawled out from under the train.” Astonishingly, her only physical injury was a cut hand yet she has clearly been left in shock over what took place.
Another report on VK said: “She is alive, without fractures.” The girl has not been named but local woman Ekaterina Guseva said: “I know her through the other people. She only has minor bruises.” An investigation is underway into the lucky escape. The girl’s mother said she “survived by a miracle” as she walked home from college – and has now banned her from wearing headphones while outside.
She is suffering from shock, but is recovering at home. The mother said the train was slowing to stop at the station. She told 360.ru: “I tell her: ‘If the express train had been speeding, you would have been smashed to pieces like meat’…. She will learn a lesson for the rest of her life, 100 per cent. The headphones were left there, on the tracks. I say: no more headphones.”
