Elderly Woman Killed By Seoul Station Subway Doors
|It makes you wonder if the additional safety risk caused by the platform screen doors is worth the suicide prevention rationale for installing them in the first place?:
An elderly woman died Wednesday after her purse was caught between a subway train and a platform screen door at Seoul Station, and she was dragged until she fell onto the tracks.
According to police, the woman, surnamed Seol, 81, got stuck while exiting the train at 9:04 a.m. She was pulled for about seven meters between the glass and the train and before falling on the tracks.
Witnesses said the accident happened because her purse was caught in the closing subway doors and she tried to pull it out.
The subway doors and the platform screen doors closed at the same time and the woman was caught between them, but the train departed without the engine driver noticing this.
“When the rescue team arrived, she was already dead with a serious head injury,” a police officer said. [Korea Times]
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“The accident caused a suspension of subway operations between Seoul Station and City Hall Station for about five minutes.”
That was quick. Last summer, I was on line 1 near Suwon when someone committed suicide by laying on the tracks. We were held up for over an hour. Everyone was given a refund for the delay, which surprised me.
Sad to think there’s no emergency buzzer…
Hungry subways chew their food before they swallow.