/img-s3.ilcdn.fi/c5b53fb1376090f4d9bde06558a5e01d0243404516c753b859a4aa36500d1a79.jpg "“Suddenly it hit me” – Taking photos on a train track took a horrible turn in Georgia
– 2024-09-10 12:54:14")
A young woman narrowly escaped being hit by a train.
A shocking video shows how a train hit a young woman on the track between Batumi and Kobuleti in Georgia.
Survived being hit by a train What Lomidzeksik says that he did not realize that there were trains running on the track at the time.
According to Lomidzeks, he was supposed to take pictures with his friends. It was already too late when he heard the train coming.
– I thought that I was standing far enough anyway, so I wasn’t too worried.
– When I first looked, I didn’t even see the train, and then it suddenly hit me, Lomidzeksi says.
In a message published on social media, Lomidzeks added that he was happy to be alive. It was all about the cents.
– I can’t turn back the clock, and it’s not the driver’s fault or really anyone’s fault. I should have looked more closely, he admits.
The Finnish Railways Agency warns
For these reasons, moving and staying in the railway area (tracks, yard, platform, standing wagons) is dangerous to life, and therefore prohibited by law:
1. Today’s trains no longer like the traditional train horn, they are really quiet. That’s why you can’t easily hear an approaching train until it’s already too late.
2. There is always a danger to life on an electric railway. Electricity can “jump” from the catenary wires above the tracks and strike from far away. Climbing on top of the carriages and poles is very dangerous and therefore prohibited.
3. By law, you may only cross the railway at official level crossings or via a bridge/underpass. You can also be fined for correcting across the track.
4. The train cannot swerve and its stopping distance is always several hundred meters. A train moving at high speed, weighing hundreds of thousands, even millions of kilograms, does not stop quickly, but requires a long stopping distance.
5. The train is wider than the tracks, and the air flow of a speeding train easily knocks over a person moving near the track, who can also fall onto the tracks.
6. Vandalism is prohibited and dangerous also for the author himself. Staying on the track is always reported to the emergency center and the police.
7. Train schedules are not written in stone. Especially freight trains and track machines often move ahead of schedule or behind schedule. You never know when the train will come.
Source: Väylävirasto
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