PARIS – As a high-speed train roared over him, a 19-year-old drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed.
The driver saw the body lying on the tracks and slammed on the brakes, but was only able to stop a few hundred meters further on. The train passing overhead left only a few grease stains on the back of his jacket. The clearance under the train is only around 20 centimeters.
According to the spokesman, the teenager was making his way back from the Saint Nolff music festival when he stopped to take a nap on the railway line.
Roused by police and fire fighters who attended the scene, he was transferred to a nearby hospital after giving a one-fingered salute and rolling over and going back to sleep.
SOURCE: Reuters
Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 3:35 pm by Lin McNulty
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