Watch: Woman on phone falls in front of approaching train in scary footage
A women at the Madrid Metro in Spain was so engaged with her phone at the platform that she walked straights and fell on the track, while the train was approaching. The accident has been caught on CCTV and the spine-chilling video has gone viral on the internet.
At the Estrecho metro station, the women was waiting for her train, she was busy fidgeting with her phone and did not notice as she walked till the edge. As she went forward, seh fell on the tracks. As the train was at a considerable gap, it shrieked to a halt.
📱Distracted by her phone, woman walks straight onto Madrid tracks | https://t.co/N7J6EnvleV pic.twitter.com/nPo9n8wjSo
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 30, 2019
In the meantime, Twitteraties also voiced their opinion on the occurrence.
Sorry, you’re in a train station how do you not realise they’re tracks there ?
— Brian Burke (@brian017) October 30, 2019
Drives me crazy. I was getting off the Dart one morning and a girl walking behind me,eyes fixed to her phone, caught the back of my shoe with her foot causing me to trip & almost fall into the railway track.I was raging. She apologised & continued with her phone. I lifted her🤬
— Ashling (@ashlingcolgan) October 30, 2019
amazing how stupid some people are
— mrcharitable (@mrcharitable) October 30, 2019
Madrid Metro has stated that the women is safe and only suffered minor injuries. "In this case, nothing serious happened," it said.
After the video surfaced, Madrid Metro addressed passengers to "look up from their mobile phones when walking along the platform. Not looking up when you are waiting for the subway is a distraction that can prove expensive."
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First published: 1 November 2019, 14:14 IST