A man died this Friday night after being hit by a train at the subway stop del Clot, in Barcelona. The police have opened a investigation to clarify the causes of the accident. From the information known so far, it would not be a suicide but rather a accidentaccording to ‘El Nacional’.
The events occurred around 9:00 p.m. on Line 1 when, before the crash, the victim had allegedly gone down onto the tracks voluntarily, according to the aforementioned media. Apparently, the convoy has run into the person who had invaded the rails. Driver He was unable to stop in time to prevent the collision as soon as he entered the station.
After giving a strong braking, the driver informed the passengers over the public address system that they had to evacuate the train, according to the scene that EL PERIÓDICO witnessed. The notice has produced bewilderment among a good part of those who were on board, given that at least two of the cars remained inside the tunnel and with the doors closed when the march has suddenly stopped. The train was not an articulated model, in which all the cars are interconnected by accordion-shaped corridors.
To the rescue of passengers
After a few minutes of uncertainty, the driver himself has come to the rescue of the passengers trapped in the tail of the convoy. He opened the emergency door located at the front of the third car and explained that he had run over a person. Visibly affected, a few travelers have consoled him. Others have burst into tears and most have not known how to react, stupefied.
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Without the option of going down to the tracks to cover the distance to the station on foot, the driver has made the passengers go over the hitch that joins the carriages so that they could reach the leading car and exit that way to the Clot platform. Before, he has repeated to them on more than one occasion that they should avoid looking under the train in any case.
Witnesses have alerted the emergency services and various endowments of Mossos d’Esquadra, Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona and the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) have moved quickly to the scene of the events. But when the paramedics arrived, They couldn’t do anything to save the victim.. The event has affected the circulation of Line 1 while the emergency teams have intervened and until the removal of the body has been ordered.