Seoul’s Subway Doors Claims Its Third Victim This Year

Another death caused by the security doors in Seoul’s subway system:

The victim, circled, collapses after coming through an emergency door on the platform. He died in hospital. / Yonhap
The victim, circled, collapses after coming through an emergency door on the platform. He died in hospital. / Yonhap

A man was killed after being caught between subway safety doors and a train at Gimpo International Airport Station in western Seoul, Wednesday.

The passenger, surnamed Kim, 36, was on a train heading for Banghwa Station of line No. 5. As the train arrived at Gimpo station, he was getting off but got caught in the 30-centimeter gap between the train and the platform safety screen door.

As the subway engineer closed the train doors and screen doors to depart, a passenger reported through the intercom on the train that a man was caught between the two sets of doors, according to Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp.

The engineer re-opened the doors and closed them again 27 seconds later and started moving the train, apparently failing to check whether the man got out of the gap. [Korea Times]

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redwhitedude
redwhitedude
8 years ago

Negligent on the part of the engineer. People need to be more diligent on their job in Korea. This was easily avoidable fatality.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
8 years ago

Thirty centimeters between the train and safety door sounds like a poor design.

The designer must have been a chubby chaser.

Who designs a trap that only lets fat chicks live?

Andy
Andy
8 years ago

I like how they make sure everyone is on in Japan:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=428_1471848326
Or in Mumbai, lol:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f1f_1471424658

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