The man, a 24-year-old Algerijn, wanted to raise a cigarette and would have jumped on an intermediate piece of the train in St. Pölten. Valk then the train left. He immediately pounded the windows, after which the train conductor activated the emergency brake.
The twenties remained unharmed, but it could have ended very differently for him. The high -speed line in question has a maximum speed of 230 kilometers per hour. “It is irresponsible,” tells spokesman for the Austrian railways Herbert Hofer to The Guardian.
“Usually something like that results in death. You not only endanger yourself. If you end up under the train, rescue workers, police and fire brigade have to come to the scene,” said Hofer.
‘The conductor was furious’
The man was brought on board the train and arrested by the police at the next station. “The conductor was furious,” a passenger tells the Austrian newspaper Heute.
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A similar incident took place in Germany last January. A 40-year-old man from Hungary managed to cling on the outside of a high-speed train for 32 kilometers. He also learned a cigarette shortly before.