accidents
Woman dies after being electrocuted and falling from a railway pylon
A blue light on the roof of a police vehicle. The police report an electrical accident on a railway system in Lower Saxony. photo
© Lino Mirgeler/dpa
A young woman climbs a power pole on a railway facility and is hit. In the end she didn’t survive.
A 21-year-old climbed a power pole at the train station in Söhlde, Lower Saxony, suffered an electric shock and later died in hospital as a result of the accident.
The woman was on the train with her 31-year-old partner from Hildesheim in the direction of Braunschweig, as the police announced on Sunday. The two had to leave the train early at Hoheneggelsen station because they did not have a valid ticket.
For reasons that are not clear, the woman then climbed onto the power pole, received an electric shock of 15,000 volts and fell onto the platform. The woman was revived at the scene but died in hospital. The further investigations into the course of the accident are ongoing.