Commuters save Japan woman
stuck in platform gap -- by pushing
train
This article is contributed by the STOMP Team.
When a woman alighted a train at Minamiurawa Station and fell
through the platform gap yesterday morning (Jul 22), 40 commuters
and staff members pushed the train to make a gap big enough to free
her.
The incident took place in Saitama Prefecture at around 9.15am,
when a woman in her 30s fell through the gap between the platform
and train carriage, reports Japan Crush and Rocketnews24.
According to JR East Japan, the gap between the carriage and the
platform is normally about 20cm wide.
She got stuck at her hip and attracted the notice of staff
members, one of whom shouted, 'Someone is trapped!'
Commuters then got off the train voluntarily, and helped the
crew to push the train so as to make a bigger gap to free the
woman.
She was rescued within minutes and sent to hospital with no
visible injuries.
What also won the admiration of netizens after news of the
incident broke was that there was only an eight-minute delay to the
Keihin Tohoku Line.
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