Man clings to high-speed prepare in Austria after it left station with out him, officers say

[ad_1] A person survived after clinging to the skin of a high-speed prepare in Austria on Saturday, reportedly after it left whereas he was having a cigarette break.

The person, who was not recognized, grabbed onto the skin of the prepare because it was leaving the station in Sankt Poelten, west of Vienna, railways spokesman Herbert Hofer instructed AFP.

"It's irresponsible, this sort of factor normally finally ends up with somebody dying," he stated. "And you are not simply placing your self at risk, if you find yourself below the prepare, there's rescuers, there's police, hearth service that come."

Hofer stated the passenger was later taken on board when the prepare carried out an emergency cease.

The railjet prepare was on its method from Zurich, Switzerland, to the Austrian capital and left Sankt Poelten on time however arrived in Vienna with a 7-minute delay, Hofer stated.

Citing a passenger onboard, Austrian tabloid Heute stated the person jumped into the area between two carriages after the prepare started to set off from a deliberate cease in Sankt Poelten.

The person had taken benefit of being at a station to smoke a cigarette on the platform, in keeping with Heute. After leaping on the prepare, he quickly started to bang on home windows to draw consideration, Heute stated, ensuing within the prepare's conductor activating the emergency brake earlier than the prepare crew took the person aboard.

"The conductor actually had a really massive go at him," the passenger instructed Heute.

The person is a 24-year-old Algerian and was led away by police after the prepare arrived in Vienna's Meidling station, Heute reported.

Hofer stated he couldn't touch upon the person's background forward of additional investigations.

Equally, in January, a 40-year-old Hungarian man survived clinging to a German high-speed prepare for 20 miles, after it left whereas he was smoking a cigarette. The person instructed police he had left his baggage on the prepare throughout his cigarette break and didn't wish to be parted from it, CBS Information associate BBC reported .