According to a traveler who saw the accident happen on Monday evening, the woman was dragged by the tram for a minute. “She fell on the way,” she told AT5. At Estella it didn’t come that far. “My arm and my jacket were stuck, but I could still take my arm out of it. Not my jacket.”
Estella tells how someone on the platform came to the rescue. “We were panicking and shouted really hard, but I don’t think the driver has heard,” she says. “Eventually I was able to pull my coat over my head while the tram was already driving. It was in the nick of time if I had been dragged. My coat went with the tram and I didn’t find it anymore.”
Get in time
According to the GVB, they take the incidents very seriously and conduct research. They do, however, emphasize that these kinds of accidents can happen because people are still entering if the tram already signs that the doors close. But according to Estella that was not how she was doing. “I pressed the button, the door opened, and when I wanted to board the door suddenly closed quickly. That is not true.” She also does not understand how the driver could not see it. “You look in your mirror when you drive away?”
