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Has anyone been hit by a train and lived?
When Patrick Labossiere was 25, he was hit by a subway train. He was on the tracks and hit directly by the train. Immediately after impact, the train passed over his unconscious body. Somehow, he survived.
How often do people get hit by the subway?
According to the National Transportation Safety Bureau, Nearly every 2 hours, a person or vehicle is hit by a train in the U.S. Rail accidents and/or incidents include the following scenarios: Derailment. Train-train collisions.
Can you survive being hit by a train and survive?
However, the individual hit by the train sometimes survives and lives to tell the story of what it was like. In one of the most unusual cases of someone getting hit by a train, a 34-year-old woman in Sebring, Florida, was walking along the tracks just before 5:30 AM on August 17, 2018.
Did you know these facts about train accidents?
Some statistics are quite surprising when it comes to trains. Did you know that a person or a vehicle gets hit by a train every two hours in the United States? This includes the most disastrous of all accidents—a train-on-train collision, which can have catastrophic consequences. Approximately 1,000 people per year are killed in train accidents.
What happens if you get hit by a train while driving?
If the person gets under the wheels, body parts are cut off by the wheels and ground up. I have been fortunate enough not to hit any person on the tracks, and have only been involved in 3 fatal accidents where the people were inside their vehicles and were hit by the train.
What happened to the woman who was hit by the train?
The woman was suddenly hit by a passing train that she had not seen coming. Almost unbelievably, the woman was still conscious afterward and capable of calling for paramedics to tell them that she was injured.